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Today’s Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 8-11

Today’s Devotional: Deuteronomy 8:1-10

Observing and remembering both are crucial and important. God calls the children of Israel to do both with His Word. The reasoning is that He has great favor which He desires to show to and through them. God’s favor is for life and growth, and to receive the inheritance He has given; and the children of Israel remaining in that peace and rest of the Lord was that they had to live by and remember His Word when they came up against the trials and troubles in the land of promise and if they didn’t abide in His Word then there was no way His Word could abide and flow out of their lives.

Properly observing begins with proper remembrance of who God is and what He has done for each and everyone of us, His Grace. God knows the heart of man and the need for stirring up remembrance; Peter in 2 Peter 1:12-15, 2 Peter 3:1, then Paul in Philippians 3:1 it is important to remember the truth of who God is and the truth of who God is not, and God’s Word tells us who God is and places a distinction between who He is and who He is not so that we can worship Him properly and not improperly which is not worship of God at all.

For the children of Israel, and for the Christian as well, it is important to remember two things which though the situations or circumstance may change, these two never change about our personal situation or circumstance that need to be remembered:

1. Who led us before, and so who is ready to lead us now
2. Humbling and testing – seasons of hunger and humbling are for at a minimum for the purpose of learning one central and vital fact of a Spirit filled life in the land of God’s peace in our life:

But we live by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:3

That it’s the Word of God which leads us, fills us and carries us through the storms or the celebrations.

Therefore to stay in the past, present and future peace that is only found in Christ Jesus, and which only He can give and which He gives freely we must keep the Word of the Lord in our life and apart of our life.

How often?

Well, How often do you walk? Daily right, Paul mentions in Ephesians to walk worthy of the call we have to life in Christ, and the only way we learn how we are walk a worthy life of who Christ is daily is to be in His Word daily.

How often are you aware of your present situation? What situation are you in or maybe reminded of which you don’t have peace about or in, invite Christ into that situation or circumstance ask the Lord to give discernment about it and understanding of stepping right, left, or stopping. Get into His Word and ask Him to reveal who He is and How He moves so that when He moves or responds you will be familiar with Him moving or speaking.