- When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. Deuteronomy 18:9 – It can be tempting to think that when we begin stepping into all that God is leading us into that the temptations to pursue sin will just begin fading away. Yet what we see in our passage is a reminder that not only could those temptations be there but we can expect them to come up. I wish it was the case that temptations would just stop when you pursue Jesus well, but that’s not how our enemy works. What’s great though is when we pursue after Jesus then we are already heading towards the one that offers us the strength to move past those temptations. That while yes these temptations are something we can expect, they are something we can overcome. Remember you have the choice to say no and God wants to offer you the strength to say no. Our enemy is already planning to strip your focus off of God, but we don’t have to hand him his victory. Take hold of the victory over sin that Jesus already won for you. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1313
- Deuteronomy 18 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen…Deuteronomy 18:15 – As a reminder, Deuteronomy is when Moses was speaking to the people of Israel right before they stepped into the Promise land finally after their forty year wilderness journey. Moses wasn’t allowed by God to go with them into the land, so he is speaking over them all that God had shared and done up to that point to remind them to remain faithful once in the land of promise. Here Moses reminds them of a particular promise God made, that God would raise up for them another prophet from among their people. This prophet would speak and the people would need to listen to him. Now many prophets came from the Lord after the time of Moses, and this passage could for sure speak of them in part. What we see from scripture though is this particular prophet spoken of by Moses is our Savior Jesus. Even in Acts 3 when Peter is speaking he refers back to this moment in history to prove that Jesus truly was from God and is God. How amazing is it to see that even before the Israelites took their first real steps into the Promise Land, God had already been speaking to them of His Savior that would come for their rescue one day. Our responsibility then today is to do what God through Moses said to do with what this prophet spoke. Listen to it and follow it. What a blessing then it is that we don’t have to be in a place of waiting for our Savior to come and speak to know what to follow in this life. We have the words of Jesus recorded for us in scripture to learn and follow. Let’s invest our days learning what our Savior, the prophet Moses spoke of long ago, has spoken and begin following those words with our whole lives. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2443
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