Daily Bread — Thursday, January 4, 2024
For the Lord your God is a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. (Deuteronomy 4:31) As Moses prophesied, when God's people who were scattered throughout the nations found themselves in...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, January 3, 2024
When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days. (Deuteronomy 4:30) As I said yesterday, rabbinical commentators believe that this last day "revival" described above will come during a time of great distress just before the Messianic...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, January 2, 2024
When you are in distress, and all these things come upon you in the latter days. (Deuteronomy 4:30) Moses prophesied to the people that they would, in time, be scattered through the nations and made to serve gods of wood and stone. However, in their exile and...
Daily Bread — Monday, January 1, 2024
But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29) It is interesting and a bit pathetic that, in our human frailty, we often fail to appreciate what is before us. By that...
Daily Bread — Sunday, December 31, 2023
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. (Deuteronomy...
Daily Bread — Saturday, December 30, 2023
When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly ... and do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger ... you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to...
Daily Bread — Friday, December 29, 2023
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24) Yesterday, we addressed the fact that because we serve a jealous God, we mustn't be tolerate of falsehoods and lies -- that would be akin to turning to false gods. Following the example of...
Daily Bread — Thursday, December 28, 2023
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24) Considering that Moses was not permitted to enter Canaan, nor were his bones buried in the land as it was with Joseph, it is clear that the Almighty doesn't play favorites nor does He...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, December 27, 2023
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. (Deuteronomy 4:20) Moses reminded Israel that they are a people of "inheritance," which is to say, they are a people called to be...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, December 26, 2023
But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an inheritance, as you are this day. (Deuteronomy 4:20) The nations of the world have always and still do what is right in their own eyes. With God's people it is not...
Daily Bread — Monday, December 25, 2023
Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a...
Daily Bread — Sunday, December 24, 2023
Take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a...
