JUNE 16, 2023 Deuteronomy 27:8 And you shall write very plainly on the stones all the words of this law. As mentioned in a previous devotion, the words of the Law were to be written on large stones that had been whitewashed with lime, obviously intended to accentuate the letters that formed the words. This was […]
JUNE 15, 2023 Deuteronomy 27:5-6 And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them. You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. As was mentioned in the previous devotion, the entirety of the Torah […]
JUNE 14, 2023 Deuteronomy 27:2-3 And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime. You shall write on them all the words of this law. From the beginning of their presence […]
JUNE 13, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:18-19 The Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has […]
JUNE 12, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:11 So, you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. Have you ever wondered why Paul felt it necessary to say that God loves a “cheerful giver”? In other words, it seems self-evident that a loving […]
JUNE 11, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:8 So, the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. In keeping with the theme developed in the previous devotions, in this verse Moses reminds us of what God did that allowed His people to stand before the LORD […]
JUNE 10, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:5 And you shall say before the Lord your God: “My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” As I mentioned in the previous devotion, some translations render this verse to say, “My father was a wandering Aramean.” The […]
JUNE 9, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:5 And you shall say before the Lord your God: “My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.” In the previous devotion we highlighted the fact that our Heavenly Father keeps His promises to His people, even though, sometimes […]
JUNE 8, 2023 Deuteronomy 26:1-2 And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your […]
JUNE 7, 2023 Deuteronomy 25:13-15 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure. Justice and honesty are crucial for the stability of the […]
JUNE 5, 2023 Deuteronomy 25:2-3 It shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many […]
JUNE 4, 2023 Deuteronomy 25:1 If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked … As long as I’ve been alive and involved with ministry, the word judgment has always conjured up negative thoughts and themes. By that I mean, when we […]
