066 Saturday, March 7, 2009

066 Deuteronomy 8 – 10; Romans 13

Does God mean what He says? A lady one time shared with me that the warnings in the Bible were like those of a father who has had it with his children and says, "I'm going to skin you alive if you do that again." The father is not going to do that and the children know that to be the case, but it is said to get their attention and to show that the father means business. Moses is preaching to the new generation and lets them know that God means business. "If you forget, forget God, your God, and start taking up with other gods, serving and worshiping them, I'm on record right now as giving you fair warning that will be the end of you; I mean it--destruction." Did God really mean this or was the Lord just trying to get their attention? What father, good father, doesn't discipline his children? The Lord has to discipline his children as well.

For forty years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness because they disobeyed God. The Lord meant what He said. Don't forget the Lord or the same will happen to you. The reason they could forget Yahweh once they got into the land is they could actually believe that the reason they got into the land was because of their own strength. Moses exhorts them to remember it is God who gives them the strength to do those things. The book of Deuteronomy is about not forgetting who and what the Lord has done. It is a review. Don't forget the Lord.

Have you forgotten the Lord? Maybe in 70% of your life Yahweh is remembered but what about that 30%? Give yourself to Him and all your physical, mental, and spiritual stuff. Don't forget the Lord.