Daily Bread — Wednesday, May 1, 2024
You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. (Deuteronomy 19:14) From the very beginning of Creation, we see that boundaries are...
22 Aviv — There’s More To Come
It was on this day, according to tradition, that Joshua and the children of Israel began their march around the city of Jericho. It’s recorded in Joshua 6: Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, April 30, 2024
You shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess. You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, that...
21 Aviv — Written For Our Example
It was on this day, so says tradition, that Israel crossed through the Red Sea followed by Pharaoh and his chariots. When the waters closed upon the Egyptians and they were destroyed, Israel sang the “Shirah” - the song celebrating their deliverance. A portion of that...
Daily Bread — Monday, April 29, 2024
If you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?” When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it...
20 Aviv — The One and Only Path
According to Jewish tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh, thinking that the wilderness had shut them in, caught up with the Hebrews while they were encamped at Pi Hahiroth - “the mouth of the gorges.” Israel came to be at this place because, as they were leaving...
Daily Bread — Sunday, April 28, 2024
The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor...
19 Aviv — God Can Even Use the Enemy
It was on this day that, having learned of their flight the previous day, Pharaoh began his pursuit of Israel into the wilderness. Ironically, on this same date over 3500 years later, on April 20, 1889, another tyrant, Adolph Hitler was born. As we go through these...
Daily Bread — Saturday, April 27, 2024
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you. (Deuteronomy 18:13-14) As mentioned in the previous devotion, the...
18 Aviv — God Is A Good General
According to tradition, it was on this day that Pharaoh was informed that the Hebrews were escaping, and soon after, he began his pursuit. “Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against...
Daily Bread — Friday, April 26, 2024
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls...
17 Aviv — Come in to the Ark
According to some traditions and interpretations of Scripture, this is the day that Noah’s ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, as recorded in Genesis 8: “Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of...