January 19, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 10 (NIV)
Tablets Like the First Ones
1 At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark. 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”……Continue Reading
Fear the Lord. I love this picture, especially as a parent, of having a reverant honor to God. Not a scary fear but rather a desire to obey because we acknowledge ALL He has done, continues to do, and will do on our behalf. A longing to follow knowing that His choices for us are always for our good. A willingness to listen because He wants to see us grow and mature and come into a deeper more intimate relationship with Him. Our perfect Father we fear and love!
Verse 9. Levi has no inheritance on earth, but only the Lord. I can learn from this.
V. 12 What does God require? Jesus told us the same thing, Matthew 22. Love God with all of you!
V. 16, it’s not your hands, feet, or eyes that causes sin, it’s the human condition, the heart, and it needs to be permanently changed. Something Jesus is expertly able to do!
V.17 There is no other god or lord, none greater, or mightier than our God. The chosen gods of men offer no salvation or aid.
Where you go, I’ll go, where you stand, I’ll stand…I will follow you!
Deuteronomy 10
He put commandments back on 2 new tablets. With a command to build an ark and put the 2 tablets in the ark as God had ordered. God continues to ask us that we are not only to fear the Lord and walk in obedience but also to love him with all our heart and soul and do what his commands for our own good. God is the only one we should praise.
Deuteronomy 9
Deuteronomy 10
Deuteronomy 10
God is so patient to the Israelites that He again writes out the ten commandments on two tablets just like the first time. It is noted here that only the ten commandments are placed in the Ark of the Covenant. Also in I Kings 8:9 {There was nothing in the Ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb—-}. But in Hebrews 9:4b {and the Ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot of manna, and Aaron`s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant}. Somewhere these other two were added. I like Deut. 1012 {And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul}. This is also what the Lord requires of us once we have come to Christ Jesus. God bless all those who desire to walk with Him.
Deuteronomy 10
God wrote out the 10 commandments again to show His commitment that His people would know the primary things that should define them. And He calls them to follow them because they fear Him, love Him and they are good for them. We have the same reasons to follow God unreservedly and recognize that He not only deserves it, but it also makes sense because of who He is and what He has done. Who better to follow than the God who created us and has displayed His goodness, care and ability all around us.
Deuteronomy 9 &10
God writes out the 10
Commandments again for Moses. I wonder how big these stone tablets were and what God’s handwriting looked like? You always see depictions of Moses holding giant, thick tablets, but it says he held them in his hands, so I suspect they were smaller.
I also like it when there is foreshadowing in the OT of what will be written in the new. Like Jesus’ summary of the law.
”“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,“
Deuteronomy 10:12 NKJV
And that circumcision is an act of obedience, representing a state is the heart.
”Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer.“
Deuteronomy 10:16 NKJV
”but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.“
Romans 2:29 NKJV
DEUTERONOMY 10