The Ascent #2

All the seemingly restrictive, harsh, and cruel laws and commands in the OT for the Israelites not to make life more burdensome, but its for their own good. God knows it better, yet man only discovered it thousands of years later!

With the advancements in medicines and technology, men started to realize the truth behind all the laws. Clinically, anyone who’re admitted with infectious diseases will be nursed in an Isolation room, and it’s a Standard Precautions that any medical workers to wash their hands meticulously, and any conscientious government in office would spend millions of dollars in the sanitation system as part of the basic infrastructures.

There’re still many ununderstandable thus seemed unreasonable laws and commands for us up till today. But hey, aren’t we just like the Israelites at Moses’ times who couldn’t comprehend the goodness of Circumcision for boys at the “eighth day” (personally, the scientific fact of VitK - the coagulant production’s at its peak on this day, just blown me away!) Bit by bit, the “but Why”, “by What”, and “so How” revealed through times and discoveries.. These just among many others that shows God wanted to protect us. During the congregation, upon listening to John's preaching on this 2nd lesson of the Ascent lessons, l vaguely seemed to ‘see’ (being a visual person) His “love” for us… :)