Feb 27, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 27, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:10-11 As at the first time, I stayed in the mountain forty days and forty nights; the Lord also heard me at that time, and the Lord chose not to destroy you. Then the Lord said to me, “Arise, begin your journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.” Were […]
Feb 26, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 26, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:8-9 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day. Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him. As discussed in the […]
Feb 25, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 25, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:8-9 At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister to Him and to bless in His name, to this day. Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the Lord is his inheritance, just as the Lord your God promised him. When Moses descended Sinai […]
Feb 24, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 24, 2023 Deuteronomy 10:1-1-2 At that time the Lord said to me, “Hew for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to Me on the mountain and make yourself an ark of wood. And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you shall put them […]
Feb 23, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:16 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God—had made for yourselves a molded calf! You had turned aside quickly from the way which the Lord had commanded you. Even as Moses was receiving the tablets of the covenant, the people were turning away from the promise they had just made. […]
Feb 22, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 22, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:6 Therefore understand that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people. Once again we have a verse to remind us that, in spite of our continued stubbornness and resistance to the will of God, He is gracious and good. Where these […]
Feb 21, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 21, 2023 Deuteronomy 9:1, 3 Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven…. Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive […]
Feb 20, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:18 And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. I believe it is safe to say that all the difficulties Israel was subjected to — and then expected to overcome — was […]
Feb 19, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 19, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:11-14 Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them … and all that you have is multiplied; when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the Lord your […]
Feb 18, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 18, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. In Judaism, the dinner table is considered to be an altar of sorts and the time spent at ther table a semi-sacred gathering. Therefore, it is customary to […]
Feb 17, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 17, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:7-9 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will […]
Feb 16, 2023 | Daily Devotion
FEBRUARY 16, 2023 Deuteronomy 8:5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. The hunger suffered in the wilderness followed by the manna was, in some ways, a form of correction, or as Moses puts it, chastening. But if chastening, it was done from the perspective of a […]
