Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 7–Verse 9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations…People change. We go through different phases of life, we change our likes and dislikes, we move, we deconstruct, reimagine, and reinvent. Change can be negative or positive in ea...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 6-- Verse 5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Complete trust and complete devotion is what the Israelites were being called to in Deuteronomy 6-7. He asks the same of us. In fact, Jesus repeats these same words in the New Testament when He is asked what the greatest commandment is by teachers of the...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 5–Verse 29Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!Unfortunately, many people feel that the Ten Commandments are no longer worthy of attention. They’ll think, Oh, we’re no longer under the law, but under grace, and therefore skip over chapters like t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 4--Verse 19And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.As humans, we are so prone to wander. So easily influenced to worship things of the earth o...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 3–Verse 22You shall not fear them, for it is the Lord your God who fights for you.The children of Israel were at the point of going into the promised land. They were greeted with opposition from powerful kings, great armies, and “cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars…”To them, they appeared outmanned and ill-prepared. However, the Lord had a supreme vi...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 2—Verses 16-18So as soon as all the men of war had perished and weredead from among the people, the Lord said to me, 'Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.’The children of Israel have finally been given the go ahead to head toward the promised land. In the last 40 years, they have averaged 41 funerals per day while all the fighting men who had complaine...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 1--Verse 8See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.We see in the book of Deuteronomy a repetition of events described in Exodus and Numbers. “Deutero” means “second”. We are visiting events and teachings a sec...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 36—Verse 6This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.’This was the Lord’s solution to the problem that arose from marriages between sons and daughters of different tribes of Judah. Don’t do it! It leads to problems.Similar advice is give...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 35—Verse 33You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.He’s talking specifically about murder. Murder pollutes the land. Most of us probably have not murdered anyone. But 1 John 3:15 says that whoever hates their bro...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 34—Verse 2Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders)...The Israelites’ inheritance was LAND for which they did not pay. Crops they didn’t have to plant, homes they didn’t have to build. They just had to go in and take the lan...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 33--Verse 2Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage. Chapter 33 is basically a log of where the children of Israel had been for the last 40 years. It was a record of their journey. Are you keeping a record of yours? Might be a good idea, especially if you move around as much as Israel did. If you count them, Israel moved 40 times in 40 years. And sometim...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 32--Verse 11b...because they have not wholly followed me…In this chapter, we see that because the Israelites didn’t give themselves wholly to the Lord, they cut themselves off from receiving the incredible promised land!I believe the principle we find in this chapter presents us with an opportunity to examine our own hearts. Are we wholly following the Lord? It’s a lo...  Read More