Wednesday after the Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on November 8, 2023 by under
Scripture: Deuteronomy 7:9-12 (NKJV)
7:9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. 11 Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Devotion
God’s Word clearly says that He shows mercy to those who “love Him and keep His commandments.” And if that isn’t enough for us to do, He also says, “Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.” And finally, we are to “listen to these judgments [of God], and keep and do them.” Whoa! and Wow! God’s Law is overwhelming to sinful ears!
We can so quickly find ourselves sitting in a stupor wondering, “Now what do I do?”, having just as quickly forgotten the answer, “Flee to Jesus.” It is exactly at this time—the time when you realize you haven’t listened to God’s judgments and you can’t keep and do them—that we need to remember the words from Monday’s reading, “If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”
“The Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.” That covenant extends all the way back to the Garden of Eden, when God promised Adam and Eve that He would send a Savior. They, and all the faithful to follow, flee to Jesus, the promised Messiah. In Jesus you find the fulfillment of God’s Law for you!
Prayer: O God, our Refuge and Strength, Who art the Author of all godliness: Be ready, we beseech Thee, to hear the devout prayers of Thy Church; and grant that those things which we ask faithfully, we may obtain effectually; 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.
