We encourage you to read this devotion
three times a day. Start in the morning and reflect upon the morning
reflection question. Then in the afternoon, read it again and reflect using the
noon question for reflection. For the evening, take time to ponder how
this has resonated with you in the day and reflecting using the evening
question. We offer a prayer with each devotion for you to pray or we
invite you to pray what is in your heart.
Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40
32 For
ask now about former ages, long before your own, ever since the day that God
created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of heaven to the other: has
anything so great as this ever happened or has its like ever been heard of? 33 Has
any people ever heard the voice of a god speaking out of a fire, as you have
heard, and lived? 34 Or has any god ever attempted to go and
take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs
and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by
terrifying displays of power, as the Lord
your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?
39 So
acknowledge today and take to heart that the Lord
is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 40 Keep
his statutes and his commandments, which I am commanding you today for your own
well-being and that of your descendants after you, so that you may long remain
in the land that the Lord your God
is giving you for all time.
Reflection
This passage is plain and simple.
It gets straight to the point. It's easy to have other "gods" in our
lives - money, jealousy, busyness, pride, selfish ambition, laziness, over-eating,
anger...the list can go on and on. We have to make a choice who we will serve
each and every day. God has rescued us from darkness and set us on a straight
path. We stay spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy when we remember
who God is and keep God's commands. Who will you serve today?
Reflection Questions
Morning - Think about ways you can stay
on track to keep God's commands today and resist the urge to follow other
"gods" in your life.
Afternoon - Why do you think we as humans
run to other "gods" so easily?
Evening - Take an inventory of
the day. Did you resist other "gods" and follow the Holy Spirit's
leading in your own life? How can you resist these things tomorrow?
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