Daily Bread — Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven.... Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, February 20, 2024
And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. (Deuteronomy 8:18) I believe it is safe to say that all the difficulties Israel was...
Daily Bread — Monday, February 19, 2024
Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them ... and all that you have is...
Daily Bread — Sunday, February 18, 2024
When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you. (Deuteronomy 8:10) In Judaism, the dinner table is considered to be an altar of sorts and the time spent at the table a semi-sacred gathering. Therefore...
Daily Bread — Saturday, February 17, 2024
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you...
Daily Bread — Friday, February 16, 2024
You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. (Deuteronomy 8:5) The hunger suffered in the wilderness, followed by the manna, was in some ways a form of correction, or as Moses puts it, chastening. But if chastening,...
Daily Bread — Thursday, February 15, 2024
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, February 14, 2024
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, February 13, 2024
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. (Deuteronomy...
Daily Bread — Monday, February 12, 2024
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2) The Bible clearly states that God will...
Daily Bread — Sunday, February 11, 2024
Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers. (Deuteronomy 8:1) There is concept taught in Judaism that says, "Liberty without law is...
Daily Bread — Saturday, February 10, 2024
You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house,...
