The Tuesday after the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 21, 2025 by under
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10:12-21 (NKJV)
10:12 “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, 13 and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? 14 Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it. 15 The 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. 16 Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe. 18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing. 19 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 You shall fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and take oaths in His name. 21 He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.”
Devotion
Moses exhorts Israel to fear the Lord, walk in His ways, and keep His commandments. God’s Law reflects His own character. He is faithful, therefore we must be faithful. He is Truth, therefore we must not bear false witness. He provides, therefore we are not to steal or covet. The commandments are not arbitrary—they show us who God is.
Beyond restraining sin’s harm, the Law also teaches us to treasure God as Redeemer. Just as He freed Israel from Egypt, He has rescued us from sin and death through Christ. To obey Him is to remember His mercy and to live as those who belong to Him.
When we walk in His commandments we confess before the world that we are not our own, but His redeemed people. The Law does not save us, but because we are saved, we keep it as a reflection of who our God is. Moses directs Israel—and us—to remember God’s faithfulness and show it forth in our daily life; not to earn His favor, but because He has already claimed us in grace.
Collect: O God, forasmuch as without Thee we are not able to please Thee: Mercifully grant that Thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
