Ha'azinu - האזינו : "Give ear"
Torah : Deuteronomy 32:1-52
Haftarah : 2 Samuel 22:1-22:51
Gospel : John 20:26-21:25

Thought for the Week:

"Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as the droplets on the fresh grass and as the showers on the herb. (Deuteronomy 32:2)" Moses prayed that his teaching would be to Israel like rain and dew, which water the grass and vegetation. He compared the people of Israel to the grass and the Torah that he had taught them to life-giving water.

Commentary:

The Apostle Paul used the same metaphor in 1 Corinthians 3. Because he was the first to bring the Corinthian believers to faith, he compared himself to a man who plants seed. Because his colleague Apollos had brought teaching to the Corinthians, Paul compared Apollos to one who waters the seed:

I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. (1 Corinthians 3:6-7)

We need to be watered daily with the teaching of God's Word.

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