Deut. 10:14-15 - '"Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it. Yet on your fathers did the Lord set His affection to love them, and He chose their descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this day.'"
This thought truly amazes me; How the Lord our God who belongs to the heaven's Highest Heaven and the whole earth "set" His affection on the Israelites. He sets His affection on rebellious, stubborn, disrespectful people, He set His affection on Me, who at this very moment (written May 2013) have been thinking about the names I want to call my neighbour who has been bullying me. Why does God even bother with us? He can choose to pour His affection out on nature or on the animals or on other planetary beings hidden away up there in the universe. For some strange reason, He continues to be determined to love us, to love fallen man. The only way we could even remotely understand this is when we do as verse 12 says, "to love Him and to walk in all His ways." Only then will we get a glimpse of compassion that God has for such unlovely people. Praise God He never gives up on us!
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Promise 36 from Deuteronomy - 10:10
Deut. 10:10 - "'I, moreover, stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights like the 1st time, and the Lord listened to me that time also; the Lord was not willing to destroy you.'"
It just amazes me all that Moses went through to save his people. Not only was he praying and fasting 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain with God, but after he came down and saw the rebelliousness of his people, for whom had built an idol to be their god, which then provoked Moses to break the commandment tablets of stone, he went back up the mountain to contend for them before God for another 40 days and nights. Moses' action prompted God to change His mind and wasn't willing to destroy them. I'm really challenged by this. How far am I willing to go to contend for the people God sent me to, so that they can have a lavish relationship with God? God was not "willing" to destroy the Israelites, even though they totally deserved it. I don't believe God is willing to destroy this nation either, even though Godless corruption is rampant. He is not willing to destroy the western states either, for that matter, even though Godless immorality is rampant where babies are killed and people just plain make themselves gods rather than turn to the One and only God. God is merciful, but sometimes I think we need to contend on our knees for that mercy on behalf of others so that God's will will be bent and His mind changed to compassion. The promise is here is that God allows us to change His mind on behalf of others.
It just amazes me all that Moses went through to save his people. Not only was he praying and fasting 40 days and 40 nights on the mountain with God, but after he came down and saw the rebelliousness of his people, for whom had built an idol to be their god, which then provoked Moses to break the commandment tablets of stone, he went back up the mountain to contend for them before God for another 40 days and nights. Moses' action prompted God to change His mind and wasn't willing to destroy them. I'm really challenged by this. How far am I willing to go to contend for the people God sent me to, so that they can have a lavish relationship with God? God was not "willing" to destroy the Israelites, even though they totally deserved it. I don't believe God is willing to destroy this nation either, even though Godless corruption is rampant. He is not willing to destroy the western states either, for that matter, even though Godless immorality is rampant where babies are killed and people just plain make themselves gods rather than turn to the One and only God. God is merciful, but sometimes I think we need to contend on our knees for that mercy on behalf of others so that God's will will be bent and His mind changed to compassion. The promise is here is that God allows us to change His mind on behalf of others.
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