Contemplative Bible Reading

Deuteronomy 28:30 (New Living Translation)

You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her…

This is one of the curses promised to the people if they did not obey God’s commandments.

Some 36 years ago I became engaged to be married to the woman who has been my wife for these 36 wonderful years. I think back to the period between our engagement and wedding day. …but another man will sleep with her…

Thank you God for not enacting that curse on me. I have seen others suffer this curse. Somehow they lived through it, but their lives were altered in a way that they never recovered.

Thank you God that I live under grace, not commands with curses. I suffer consequences of foolishness in this life, but forgiveness from God. Please help me in my unbelief.