Read today’s scripture.
What do you learn NEW about God’s goodness?
Who can you share that with today?
Deuteronomy 5.
Moses summoned all Israel and said to them,
“Hear O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today,
and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.”
To the new generation, Moses carefully reviews the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20. “I AM the LORD your God…..
- You shall have NO other gods before me
- You shall NOT make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything…. YOu shall now bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God
- You shall NOT take the name of the LORD your God in vain
- You SHALL observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God
- You SHALL honor your father and mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and it shall go well with you in the Land your God is giving you
- You shall NOT murder
- You shall NOT commit adultery
- You shall NOT steal
- You shall NOT covet … anything that is your neighbor’s.
You shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you.
You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you,
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Deuteronomy 6.
Moses continues,
“HEAR, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is ONE.
You shall love the LORD your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
“These words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
(God’s very Words should be in the CENTER of all areas of their (our) lives!)
It is the LORD your God you shall fear.
HIM you shall serve.
By His name you shall swear.
You shall NOT go after other gods.
You shall NOT put the LORD your God to the test.
You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD that it may go well with you.
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Deuteronomy 7.
As for the seven nations (more numerous and mightier than them),
- Israel was to drive out of the Land.
- defeat them and devote them to complete destruction.
- make NO covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
- not intermarry with them, give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for you sons.
- break down their alters, dash in pieces their pillars, chop down their Asherim, and burn their carven images with fire.
“For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has CHOSEN you to be a people for His treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set His love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples, but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that He swore to your fathers.”
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love Him and keep His commandments … to a thousand generations.”
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Wow. And now the LORD has said He’s chosen and loves all those who believe in His Son, Jesus, and will give them life and an eternal home with Him. Praise His Name!
Morning Meditations 