Daily Bread — Saturday, December 23, 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 — Friday, December 22, 2023
Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure. (Deuteronomy 4:15-16) For all of their lives, the Hebrews...
Daily Bread — Thursday, December 21, 2023
Take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach them to your children and your grandchildren, especially concerning the day you stood before...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments ... Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor. But you who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today, every one of you. (Deuteronomy 4:3-4) In previous verses God,...
Daily Bread — Monday, December 18, 2023
You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. (Deuteronomy 4:2) Imagine a crystal clear stream flowing down from the mountaintop into the valley and then meandering...
Daily Bread — Sunday, December 17, 2023
Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. (Deuteronomy 4:1) There are many occasions where Messiah is quoted as saying, "Let...
Daily Bread — Saturday, December 16, 2023
But the Lord was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the Lord said to me: "Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter." (Deuteronomy 3:26) This verse fascinates me -- the LORD got angry with the man He had chosen to speak with, face...
Daily Bread — Friday, December 15, 2023
O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those...
Daily Bread — Thursday, December 14, 2023
This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you. (Deuteronomy 2:25) As Moses continued retelling the story of their journey, he...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, December 13, 2023
So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, December 12, 2023
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing. (Deuteronomy 2:7) In the very first part of Moses' discourse in...
