- 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 and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Deuteronomy 8:11-14 – Its interesting to me that God knows when we truly need to check our heart to see if we’re remembering Him. We’d likely say we need to make sure we are remembering Him in our hardships, yet the Lord says here our time of forgetting Him isn’t in the bad but the blessing. Moses tells the people that after they get into the Promised Land and they are enjoying the food, drink, houses, flocks, and wealth of the land that the drift will be to forget that it was God who provided all this for them and grow slack on their obedient walk after Him. God knew that when the giants came or the enemy’s walls were too high that they’d turn to obedience to Him, yet when life was easy it would be easy to forget about the Lord. Our story is no different. When the doctor says the words we don’t want to hear or we get fired, our posture often easily turns to the Lord, and often in deep ways. Yet when the blessings surround its easy to forget our need of God and that He was the One to make all this happen. Choose to dwell on the Lord and choose to obey His word both in the good times and the bad. Don’t let the blessings blind you to your need of God. Even in the joys of life God is still needed and needed to be followed. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3447
- The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. Deuteronomy 8:1 – The “whole” commandment. It was incredibly important for them to understand that God was serious about them following all that He said for them to follow, not just the parts they liked and were comfortable. It’s just as important that we get behind this word “whole” as well when it comes to the way we follow what God says to us. To truly follow Jesus, we must follow all He says whether it’s easy or hard to do. Now does that mean we can’t ever slip up? Of course we can, but as followers of Jesus let’s seek to have a life that is wholly following Jesus. This is the journey for us as believers, where each day we are seeking to live more wholly for God. So how today can you begin to live more wholly for God today than you did yesterday? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1303
- Deuteronomy 8 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18 – Moses outlines for the people just how special this land will be that the Lord is giving them. Valleys and hills flowing with water, wheat and fruit trees in abundance, a land where bread will never be scarce, a land where they will lack nothing. And when in this land that the Lord is giving them, and they find themselves embracing all that God is promising them, God is commanding them to remember it was Him that provided all this. When they are settled in their beautiful homes, eating bread to their fill, and their families are healthy around them, they are to remember it was the Lord who provided all this. Not their power, not some golden calf, but God alone who provided all this. This message from God to the Israelites is a powerful one for us today as well. While everything in your story right now may not be ideal, you are still certainly sitting in some fulfilled promises of God. Even if everything else in life is crashing in, you still have the wonderful gift of salvation in your story. Let’s just remember that all the blessings in our story came from God. It wasn’t our power, our wisdom, our wealth, our ability, or our effort that brought this into our story. God is the beginning of it all and God is the one who is worthy of worship for it all. Take time today to not only voice your thankfulness to the Lord for what He has provided, but to demonstrate that gratitude with your actions today as well. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2433
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