The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation:
Deuteronomy 10.12-22
¹²“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³andto keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good? ¹⁴Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, alsothe earth with all that is in it. ¹⁵The LORD delighted 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 LORD your God isGod 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 your 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 LORD your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. ²Know today that I donot speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your 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 LORD has 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 wasin 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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The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation:
Exodus 20.1-3
¹And God spoke all these words, saying: ²“I am the LORDyour God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³You shall have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20.1-3

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Psalm 1:1-6

¹Blessed isthe man 

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
²But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
³He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
⁴The ungodly arenot so,
But arelike the chaff which the wind drives away.
⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
⁶For the LORDknows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

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And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. Ephesians 1.22, 23

From beyond

For the Apostles, the Kingdom was centered “above,” where Christ is seated in the heavenly places in glory. But it also exists beyond our present and within us at the same time.

...to [the Apostles] He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Acts 1.3

The Kingdom “on the ground”

With the Apostles the Kingdom of God becomes something more than merely a vision; it is a lived reality which they sought and for the expansion of which they labored through all their days. It is an eternal, heavenly realm that is very much “on the ground” and on the move by the Spirit and Word of God working in and through His redeemed people.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it has grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.” Matthew 13.31, 32

Resistance and persecution

We’re looking at the evidence from Jesus’ teaching that He expected the Kingdom of God to expand and increase on earth as it is in heaven. Temporal expansion and increasing fruitfulness are both in the mind of Christ as He unfolds His Kingdom.

“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it has grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.” Matthew 13.31, 32

Inevitable growth

The parables and teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ concerning the Kingdom of God reveal just how important this new reality was to His mission. As we have seen, the Kingdom of God held the primacy in Jesus message. It was the defining motif and the overarching objective in all His work and teaching.

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.”John 15.16

Chosen for a reason

Citizenship in the Kingdom of God ensues when the Lord Jesus calls a lost sinner to repentance and faith, bestowing the gift of the Spirit, according to His Word, and granting new life in the Kingdom of God. All who are thus born from above are equipped with all they need to begin knowing the Lord ever more intimately, personally, and with transforming power.

“And this is eternal life, that they may know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” John 17.3

A threefold vision

All who understand the “here and now” aspect of the Kingdom of God will exert themselves to realize as fully as possible the benefits of the reign of King Jesus in their daily lives.

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From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4.17

Kingdom come

Undoubtedly Jesus had the clearest vision of the Kingdom of God of all the Kingdom visionaries we’ve seen or will see. We’ve already observed that Jesus regarded the Kingdom as of the highest priority for His followers. We are to “seek first” the Kingdom, not as the first in a series, but the first in everything we do.