While driving out of a small town in New Mexico, I became more occupied with unwrapping a sandwich than with watching the road signs, and I got a speeding ticket.
My first lesson that day was that not paying attention costs the same as deliberate disregard for the law.
And I still had 700 miles to go!
My second lesson was that our resolve will always be tested.
I thought of Moses’ words to God’s people as they prepared to enter the Promised Land: “You shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not: (Deu. 8:2).
Pastor and author Eugene Peterson called the process of following Christ ‘a long obedience in the same direction.’
Every resolution to begin to obey must be followed by many decisions to continue.
God gave me a humbling reminder of how vital it is to keep my heart set on obeying Him —and to pay attention along the way."
"Thou who hast freely given
Thine all in all for me,
Claim this life for Thine own to be used,
My Savior, every moment for Thee". —Christiansen
To love God is to obey God.”
OUR DAILY BREAD
July 14, 2012
"The LORD your God led you all the way these forty years...to humble you and test you." (Deu. 8:17)
Read: Deu. 8:1-10
"Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin." (James 4:17)
Tomorrow's post: How We Encourage Others Faced with Our Own Adversity Pocket Devotions
Today’s treasure truth #10: If you are “born again”, you are delivered from the powers of darkness. (Col. 1:13)
Our thought for today: We'll need to own up to our mistakes.
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