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HOW TO SHARE THE GOSPEL

Deuteronomy 15 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO

 

But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you, then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same. Deuteronomy 15:16-17 – So much of this doesn’t make sense to our 21st century mind. First, a slave “loving” their master and wanting to remain under slavery with him? This shows us that in God’s plan that if slavery was to be a thing amongst His people that slavery was to be handled far differently than the world around them handled slavery, something that treated well those enslaved to the point that they may want to remain in their master’s household forever. Second, what’s up with this awl through the ear? Imagine the master putting a wooden peg through the earlobe of the slave, leaving an opening, a hole, through the ear. This was a mark of complete, lifelong devotion to one’s master that all could see. While this mark was given as a way for the enslaved Israelites to show their devotion to their earthly masters, it can also help us see the devotion God is looking from us. In Psalm 40:6 the psalmist writes, “but you have given me an open ear.” It’s the same concept as spoken about here in Deuteronomy of the master opening the ear of the slave. God, our Heavenly Master, wants from us the sort of loving devotion that is depicted in this chapter. Where we understand we are under His Lordship and rule, yet we long to be there and to remain in His house forever. Where we long for God to give us an “open ear” showing we’re His and devoted to Him forever. As believers we are His for eternity, but does our heart yet long for that yet like it should? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3454

 

Question To Ponder: Why might a follower of Christ not want to fully commit to this lifelong devotion to the Lord as their Master like we see in this chapter?

 

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Deuteronomy – Chapter 15

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