Daily Bread — Sunday, June 16, 2024
And you shall write very plainly on the stones all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 27:8) As mentioned in a previous devotion, the words of the Law were to be written on large stones that had been whitewashed with lime, obviously intended to accentuate the letters...
9 Sivan — Don’t Ignore Your Weakness
It was on this day in the year 70 that Titus put battering rams in position to assault the walls and gates of Jerusalem. This tactic was employed in order to create a weak spot in the fortifications of the besieged city. Day after day, sometimes for weeks, these heavy...
Daily Bread — Saturday, June 15, 2024
And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not use an iron tool on them. You shall build with whole stones the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 27:5-6) As was...
8 Sivan — Sifted As Wheat
It was on this day in 1940 that the extermination camp known as Auschwitz was opened. In the course of its existence, two and a half million people would be killed there. Another 500,000 would die of starvation and disease. That totals about three million...
Daily Bread — Friday, June 14, 2024
And it shall be, on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and whitewash them with lime. You shall write on them all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 27:2-3) From...
7 Sivan — With His Fiery Finger
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses received the first tablets of the law, written by the fiery finger of God, as in the book of Exodus: “And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the...
Daily Bread — Thursday, June 13, 2024
The Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to...
6 Sivan — Let Him Speak
Today is the day that our Jewish friends celebrate the festival known, in Hebrew, as Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks. Most people in the western world refer to it as Pentecost because, in Greek, it is known as Pentecostus or “fiftieth” referring to the fiftieth day...
Daily Bread — Wednesday, June 12, 2024
So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. (Deuteronomy 26:11) Have you ever wondered why Paul felt it necessary to say that God loves a “cheerful giver”? It...
5 Sivan — Mandrakes Don’t Make Miracles
According to tradition, it was on this day that Reuben brought mandrakes to his mother, Leah. It’s recorded in Genesis 30: “Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then...
Daily Bread — Tuesday, June 11, 2024
So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. (Deuteronomy 26:8) In keeping with the theme developed in the previous devotions, in this verse Moses reminds us of what God did that...
4 Sivan — The End From The Beginning
According to tradition, it was on this day that Moses began to write the first part of the Torah, everything from the creation account until the revelation at Mt Sinai. If that is true, that’s a lot of writing to do in just a matter of a few days, not to mention the...