- Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. Deuteronomy 28:6 – God here was showing His people how to find a blessed life. To simply listen to what He had said and follow it all with all their heart. They would then find themselves blessed in all that they do and in every aspect of their life. But, as we continue to read in this chapter, God also reminded them how their life would look like if they chose to not follow His Word. Today you have a choice. To listen to what you know God has spoken into your story to do or to not. While our situations are different than the people in our passage, we understand the difference between a life that is filled with blessing and one that isn’t. God is inviting us into His blessed life and what we simply have to do is follow His lead. Let our eyes today not be distracted to the left or right, but firmly focused on Him. Take a step toward Him today and begin seeing more and more what a blessed life of following Jesus looks like. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1323
- Deuteronomy 28 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. Deuteronomy 28:63 – This verse makes you stop and reread it doesn’t it? God is going to delight in bring ruin and destroying His people? As we read even this chapter we have 14 verses on God’s blessing and 54 about the curses that comes when God’s people don’t follow Him. Does God truly delight in this ruin He is bringing? Yes, but let’s explain. First, God delights in fulfilling His word and remaining holy. So while we learn in scripture it does not bring God joy to punish the sinner and this isn’t His desire (Ezekiel 18:23), keeping true to His word and keeping things holy and just is His desires and it brings Him delight. Second, what we learn from that above Ezekiel passage and from further passages in Deuteronomy (30:1-3), is that God knows what such discipline towards our waywardness does in our story. It’s causes us to change our ways back to following Him. God is not up in Heaven with an evil laugh enjoying smiting the sinner, it saddens Him when His people chose to follow something other than Him. What does bring Him joy is seeing us return to Him. While all these curses were not things God longed to bring into the story of His people, He did, and we see how His people returned to Him as a result. Let us remember to stay faithful to God. Not out of fear of a curse or punishment, but out of adoration of a holy God. Knowing as well when trials and difficulties come that God is using them to point our eyes onto Him even more. Let’s settle that whether it is a blessing or a curse in our current story, God’s desire is our following of Him. Turn, choose, and follow Jesus and embrace the life of blessing that is promised in such a pursuit. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2453
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