January 10, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 4 (NIV)
Obedience Commanded
1 Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.……Continue Reading
We can be such a forgetful people with time and trial. We forget ALL God has done for us when we become afraid or tired or even just as time passes. Sometimes maybe we need a recounting of our personal lives like Moses gave the people here of all that God has done for them and the consequences they have experienced in their times of disobedience. Idolatry comes out of anything we put before God, which happens much easier than we care to admit. Just because we aren’t creating gold structures doesn’t make idolatry any less destructive to our walk with God. Work, kids, even works done with the wrong spirit are things that we can potentially put before God and like Moses says ” the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.” so it should always be Him first and everything else second.
DEUTERONOMY 4