{"id":83,"date":"2020-04-27T05:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2020-04-27T05:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T05:43:37","slug":"leviticus-and-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/leviticus-and-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviticus and James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\nRead James 1:26-27 this morning: \u201c<em>Anyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving himself, and his observance counts for nothing. The religious observance that God the Father considers pure and faultless is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being contaminated by the world.<\/em>\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later this morning I read the first half of Leviticus 13 which is addressing the issue of a skin disease they called <em>tzara\u2019at<\/em>, how it is supposed to be diagnosed as such and what to do after the fact. There is a note in my Complete Jewish Study Bible about how rabbinical sources emphasize a link between <em>tzara\u2019at<\/em> and the sin of gossip \u201cnoting that the practice of gossip or slander opens the door for both spiritual and physical oppression and illness\u201d (ex. Moses\u2019 sister Miriam, who spoke against Moses, contracted <em>tzara\u2019at<\/em> as a judgment against her until Moses prayed for her healing). It then references James 1:26 noting the importance tied to guarding one\u2019s words.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This made me think of another verse that speaks to the negative physical manifestations that a heart or spiritual issue can bring: Proverbs 14:30 says, \u201c<em>A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read James 1:26-27 this morning: \u201cAnyone who thinks he is religiously observant but does not control his tongue is deceiving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofsongs47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}