February 25, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 32 (NIV)
1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;
hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall like rain
and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants.……Continue Reading
Typical Israelites loving their idols instead of God…
Having read the simple application below puts the picture of Gods jealousy and anger in perspective.
‘A parent pouring love over a child and raises it from birth has the right to expect love, respect and appreciation from the child. If the child then dismisses their parent and gives all their affection and appreciation to someone else, someone who never did anything for them, the parent would be right to be upset’.
Deuteronomy 32
We tend not to think about the end result of our sin before we do it. This song is exactly that, it is a reminder to the Israelites where their sin will lead them as a people. Destruction, despair, disgrace are the end results of seperating ourselves from God and looking to other things for our contentment, our joy, and our hope. Things of this world can never satisfy like God. It is like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in it and the more you fill the more you lose! This song, while hard to hear, is something we should always consider as we make decisions because God is merciful and loving and will always be there to pick us up when we fall and bring us back to Him, however, the reality is there are still consequences for our actions and when we choose sin we will experience the repercussions of those choices.
Deuteronomy 32
I’m gonna say a word on 32:17, because it is part of my experience. Tons of subjects in 32, notwithstanding.
New gods that came newly up… reminds me that in my Christian walk, I will be, and have been exposed to “new” approaches, interpretations, doctrines that I have never heard before. These liken unto “gods” for me, because if I am not discriminate, they will lead me blunders in understanding the true God.
Put another way, I have given up being “a man of the tape” and gorging my heart with doctrines that sound so very perfect, by authors trusted by the whole world, but are in fact, wrong. Some have been around for centuries, or a decade, but have no root in the 1st century church.
No need to give specifics. There are many types of little deities that will draw me away from God. I am an eager listener, but I check doctrines against the whole of Scriptures, not bits and pieces. Test always. May we all stay with what God says, and reject the new gods of modern, but false enlightenment. Peace, -gy
Agreed, Gordon. There are “new” doctrines proclaiming to be the most Biblical, which, if one goes to the Bible, are revealed as un Biblical. Stay in the word.
Deuteronomy 32
Deuteronomy 32
Moses tells the story of God’s interaction with Israel which is also a picture of what He has done with all mankind. God is the good and powerful creator who sought out Israel and manifests Himself to all humanity to welcome us in relationship and all the blessings that would come from it. But man turns His back on God and defies who He is and serves other things to compensate for his needs and wants. There is only one thing for God to do in response: to show that He is displeased and walking away is a form of destruction in itself, God brings judgement and wrath to discipline His people. Now to do that, God will use evil nations to judge His people. And yet because those nations are evil and what they do to His people is wrong, God will bring judgement on them for their evil actions. But what this will lead to in the end is for His people to be restored, a remnant returning to God and recognizing all they had forsaken in fostering their own way and all they embrace in what God offers in His way. How useful these words would be for the Israelites to reflect at any point in time in their history and thus Moses makes it available to them.
Beautiful words to priase the Lord with at the breaking of a new day : ) “I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.”
Deuteronomy 32
”Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, and he said to them: “Set your hearts on all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to be careful to observe—all the words of this law. For it is not a futile thing for you, because it is your life, and by this word you shall prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess.”“
Deuteronomy 32:45-47 NKJV