- You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. Deuteronomy 15:10 – This chapter shows us how deeply important it’s is for us as followers of Jesus to live a life with our hands open to others. To be on the look out for the needy around us and to not hold back when we see their need. What we see promised here is that God isn’t going to let us go without. Maybe it’s hard to grasp that when we give we’ll have more, but this is how God works. I understand that in our time people take advantage of those who give out, but something I don’t see anywhere is in the passage is God telling us to worry about how they handle what we give. Let’s be wise when we give of course, but lets be open to freely giving when there is a real need in front of us. Trust God to handle you and them after that. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1310
- Deuteronomy 15 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the Lord your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. Deuteronomy 15:13-14 – God established a command for His people that every seventh year, the Sabbath year, they would have to free those in enslaved to them. This would be the Jewish men and women, who for an assortment of possible reasons, found themselves serving someone to pay off their debt. Every seventh year, God commanded them to forgive whatever debt and free that person. What’s even more special is that God commanded the slave owner to generously bless those they were setting free so they didn’t walk away empty-handed. As generously as God had blessed them so should they bless whose they were setting free. While releasing slaves isn’t something we deal with in our culture today, how we choose to bless others is. We too should let the example of how God blessed us be the foundation for how we bless others. As deeply as He forgave us is how we should forgive others. As patient as He has been with us in our sin we too should be patient with others mistakes. While it will be impossible to fully match how God forgave or loved or blessed, it can be the target we are aiming for and the example we base our life on. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2440
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