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Deuteronomy 15
on July 15th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 15--Verses 7-8 (CSB)If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him enough for whatever need he has.I love the way Our Father is intentional about loving an...  Read More
Deuteronomy 14
on July 14th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 14–Clean, unclean, clean, unclean. I often wonder how the Israelites kept it all straight! This chapter may seem like it’s just full of tedious rules, but when we step back, we can see that God has a greater purpose in these regulations–holiness. He didn’t set the Israelites apart so he could boss them around and impose a bunch of rules on them. No, he set them ap...  Read More
Deuteronomy 13
on July 12th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 13–Verse 4You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.‭‭Just because something looks good, doesn’t mean it is good. In this passage, the Lord is reminding the Israelites that it’s easy to be led astray by signs, wonders, and influential friends or family. We must alw...  Read More
Deuteronomy 12
on July 11th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 12--Verse 30Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’It’s amazing to me that people could worship false idols of wood, stone, or gold that cannot  think, breathe, speak or even move.It’s ma...  Read More
Deuteronomy 11
on July 10th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 11Verses 18-20You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You s...  Read More
Deuteronomy 10
on July 9th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy10—Verses 12-13And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?As parents, we set rules and boundaries for our ki...  Read More
Deuteronomy 9
on July 8th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 9–Verse 6Understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.The Israelites were tempted to believe that they earned the Promised Land. But they didn’t. They inherited the land because God is faithful to keep his promises.Our constant temptation is to believe that we earn wh...  Read More
Deuteronomy 8
on July 7th, 2025
Daily Devotional from Deuteronomy 8--Verse 5Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. Words cannot express what a father feels toward his son. He is the apple of his eye. But if he’s going to be worth his weight in salt, he’s gonna need a little training. So, the father will bring the heat when the occasion calls for it. Not because he’s trying ...  Read More
Deuteronomy 7
on July 5th, 2025
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
Deuteronomy 6
on July 4th, 2025
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
Deuteronomy 5
on July 3rd, 2025
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
Deuteronomy 4
on July 2nd, 2025
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
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