Category: daily meditations

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 33 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [John 10:28-29] Do you think of God as over you, around you,…

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SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 31 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then Jesus told them, This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ [Matthew 26:31] Both Jesus and Moses are looking ahead to when their followers will fall away. This must have…

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 30 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’ [John 14:6]. God’s forgiveness comes at a price, a price that He pays. He absorbs our sin and our guilt for us. In this way, the link between us, broken by us,…

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 29 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. [Matthew 11:25-26] The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things…

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 28 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. [Matthew 24:12-13] At the ‘middle’ of Deuteronomy 28, between the lengthy list of blessings and the even longer list of curses, is this appeal to not turn aside, to the…

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. [Matthew 23:27] God has Moses set up white-washed (or plastered) stones with His Law written clearly on it….

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.” [Luke 19:8]. Jesus does something radical, He agrees to eat with a ‘sinner’….

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of…

SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices–mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law–justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. [Matthew 23:23] The Jews often forgot the intent…