Omniscient – You know everything. You know all the disputes and about the ox. You know brother’s live together and that a woman would seize a man’s genitals. You know a person would have differing weights. You know who Amalek is and what he did and what this chapter means. You know Your WORD. You know me. You know my heart and my mind. You are all-knowing.
Omnipotent- You can do anything. You make up disputes and put into a person’s heart. You make an ox thresh. You make brother’s live together and You put into their heart to carry on their brother’s name or not. You put it into a woman’s heart to seize a man’s genitals. You put into a person’s heart to have differing weights or just weights. You made Amalek and You put I into his heart to do all that he has done. You make me not forget. You make me understand if You just wanted to. You are all-powerful.
Omnipresent – You are everywhere. You are in every person’s heart. You are in Egypt. You are along the way. You are in the land. You are from under the heavens and in the heavens and above the heavens. You are in Your WORD. You are here with me. You are in my heart and in my mind. You are all-present.
Eternal – You are the cause of time. You are then and when. You are all the days of a person’s life. You are now and forever. You are time.
Immutable – You do not change. You teach me about Yourself and Your heavenly throne. You lead me and guide me. You will never be made to change.
Self – Existent – You exist by Yourself. You do not need any of Your creation for You to exist. You choose. You decide. You make up disputes between men. You make up a muzzle for an ox. You make up brother’s and one dies and does not have a child to carry on his name. You make up two men struggling together. You make up differing weights and just weights. You make up Israel’s existence and Amalek’s existence. You make up my existence. You decide who lives and who dies. You make up my existence. It is Your creation who cannot exist without You.
Self-Sufficient – You do not need any of Your creation to bring about Your will or Your purpose. You choose to use Your creation because it is Your good pleasure, not Your need, that governs Your choice.
Infinite – There are no limits or bounds to Your person or dominion. You do what You want when You want, how You want. You can do anything You want. You are limitless.
Transcendent – You are a part from Your creation. You choose to teach me about Yourself and Your heavenly throne. You teach me that if there is a dispute between men, they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, then what to do with the wicked. It is important that my brother not be degraded in my eyes. I shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing, not to degrade it in my eyes. The plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops. Make me understand My LORD, PLEASE. You teach me about the duty of a husband’s brother. You teach me about two men struggling and a wife puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then her hand shall be cut off because she has degraded her husband. You teach me differing weights are unjust and degrading. You teach me about Amalek and how he attacked me when I was faint and weary. You teach me not to forget. Thank You My LORD for everything.
Sovereign – It is You I worship. You have judges decide. You take care of Your people. You know what You are doing. You are in complete control and You are doing Your foreknown plan!
Holy – You are a morally excellent, perfect being. You separate Your people for Your purples. You separate me by Your truth through Your Son for Your purpose.
Merciful – You show Your compassion by causing Your people not to be degraded and lowly.
Gracious – You show Your people Your favor by lifting them up and teaching them how to respect one another.
Righteous – You are always right. You teach me the right way. Respecting one another and taking care of each other is Your way.
Just – You punish the guilty, atone for sin, and reward the righteous who follow Your way.
Longsuffering - You are patient with Your people and slow to anger.
Loving – You love Your people and You take care of them. You give them what they need to respect each other.
Good – You give Your people a part of Yourself. You give them Your commandments and judgments, to become better people.
Wise – Your wisdom causes You to do the things You do to give me important information about Yourself. Your wisdom is higher than my wisdom. Your thoughts are higher than my thoughts.
Truthful – Your word always says what You have spoken. You always speak the truth. Your commandments are reality. You say what shall and shall not be done.
Faithful – You always do what You promise. You lead Your people and guide them to take possession of the land which You give them. You teach them how their days may be prolonged in the land.
Wrathful - You destroy all unrighteousness. You cut off a woman’s hand; You show no pity.
Jealous – You will not share Your people, who are rightly and morally Yours with any other creature.
Incomprehensible – What does muzzling the ox do while he is threshing? What does Lot and his daughters have to do with the duty of a husband’s brother? Lot was their father, they uncovered their father’s skirt which is an abomination to You? What does it have to do with this? Why would any woman wan to sleep with her dead husband’s brother? Wouldn’t that be awful? It doesn’t seem fair to the wife who is alone, or to the brother. Why is it wrong for a wife to put out her hand and seize his genitals? Does it degrade a man? Is that worse than her murdering the one? Why is it so bad to cut off her hand?
· Why is it so wrong that they shall not show any pity? What is wrong with that?
· How does differing weights have to do an ox or a wife or Amalek? What does this mean?
· Are they all unjustly? ‘For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.
· Amalek is an example of the unjustly. He did not fear God, You My LORD.
· How do I not forget? How do I do all that You command me? How do I serve only You? What am I supposed to do?
· Unjustly - adv – 1. Not just or right; unfair; contrary to justice 2. Dishonest or unfaithful Prov 29:27; Heb 6:10; 1 Pet 3:18
· What is wrong with me My LORD? How do I not be so evil? How do I not think the thoughts that I think? How do I tear out my heart? How do I put Your commandments and Your statutes into my heart? How do I do what I am supposed to do? What is expected of me? Why do I matter?
