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14Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORDyour God, also the earth with all that is in it. 15The LORDdelighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. 16Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. 17For the LORDyour God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. 21He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. 22Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD fyour God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.”
How do the fear of God and love for Him connect in my life? What “strangers” am I likely to encounter today? Will my love for God engender love for them in my soul? How “mighty and awesome” is my vision of God? How will God be my praise today? What does the Lord Who saved me require of me, that I might truly live?
Evening Meditation
Deuteronomy 11.1-7
1“Therefore you shall love the LORDyour God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. 2Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORDyour God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm – 3His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; 4what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the LORDhas destroyed them to this day; 5what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; 6and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel – 7but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lord which He did.”
Is there anything in my life, left over from this day, which might bring the Lord’s loving discipline against me? This day did I keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments in ways that showed love for Him and my neighbors? Reflecting back on this day, how many “great acts” of the Lord did I fail to note? How will I require the “mighty hand” and “outstretched arm” of the Lord for my help tomorrow?
T. M. Moore
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