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

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

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

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