Saturday Reading: Deuteronomy 8:1-3
Key Verse: Deuteronomy 8:2
2 And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
Devotion:
For us to be able to live successfully in our society we have to follow the rules of our society. If we do not then we are not going to last very long because people will no longer want us to be part of that society. The rules are there for a reason and that reason is so that everyone can try to have the same outlook. If we do not have the right attitude to have that same outlook then we are going to find that we want to either change the rules or break them because we are fighting against the core of that society. That is going to be true in any group of people no matter where...
When God took the children of Israel out of Egypt He did so to make people stand up and take notice. Too many people had broken the rules and continued to fight against the ways of God. He took them out of Egypt to focus their minds on Him again. If we want to change but we continue to do the same things as we have always done, then changing is going to be hard because we cannot see what is right and wrong because we are surrounded by so many things that others are doing that we just get carried away and go with the flow. The more we stick with that life the more we will be buried in that way of life and the less we will find out about the truth.
God has given us the commandments so that we will know the rules to start with. What we need to do is to compare what we are doing with those rules all the time to find out if we are headed in the right direction or whether we are continuing to flounder in the mire that surrounds us. Harsh words? I think not! God’s ways are far and above over all other ways and anything else is doing to pale into insignificance when we face Him face to face. We need to get our ways right now so that we can focus on Him and not on the world around us. We may not like being told off in the beginning, but we will see why in the end!
Points to Ponder:
Do you always remember what your parents tell you?
How then are you to remember what God tells you unless you read about it?
