Category: Daily Devotion

  You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes. Deuteronomy 12:8 – Apparently the idea of “everyone doing what was right in their own eyes” wasn’t just an issue for Israel in the time of the Judges (Judges 21:25). Here in…

  And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm. Deuteronomy 11:2 – Interestingly enough there were Israelites, some even adults, that were with the groups leaving the wilderness…

  Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. Deuteronomy 10:16 – For the Israelites physical circumcision was a way to outwardly display their devotion and obedience to the Lord. For us a similar thing in our walk with God might be getting baptized or going to church. Things that people…

  So I lay prostrate before the Lord for these forty days and forty nights, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. Deuteronomy 9:25 – The image given here is Moses, lying flat on the grown before the Lord for forty days and nights…why? In the chapter we see Moses reminding the people…

  Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver…

  He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give…

  When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ Deuteronomy 6:20 – If the law was handled by the Israelites how God said, it would be no surprise the interaction in this verse…

  And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.” Deuteronomy 5:1 – The progression within this verse I believe is what every parent, boss, teacher, authority figure, etc.…

  To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him. Deuteronomy 4:35 – Moses, still speaking in this chapter to the people of Israel, is telling them all he can to help them remain faithful to the Lord after crossing the Jordan into their…

Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan. But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he…