Wednesday after Septuagesima Sunday
Posted on February 3, 2021 by under
Scripture: Deuteronomy 26:16-19 (NKJV)
26:16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. 18 Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 19 and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
Devotion
The saints of the Lord are called to walk before Him in repentance. The calling to be God’s people is not something which arises from anything in man; that which is proclaimed here is, of course, entirely consistent with that which is proclaimed in John 1: “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (1:11-13)
Good works are the fruit of faith; “But without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Heb. 11:6). Anything which men might imagine about our works contributing anything to preparing us for salvation, or contributing to our salvation is all a lie of the flesh; before the Lord establishes faith in our hearts by the working of the Holy Spirit, anything which we think, say, or do is sin, “for whatever is not from faith is sin.” (Rom. 14:23) That which the Word proclaims concerning those whom the Lord calls to faith through His means of grace ever endures; the saints remain “holy people to the Lord your God” according to His promise, for the sake of Christ Jesus, who made atonement for our sins and rose again from the grave.
Prayer: O Lord, we beseech Thee favorably to hear the prayers of Thy people: that we, who are justly punished for our offenses, may be mercifully delivered by Thy goodness, for the glory of Thy Name; 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.
