God is good; God is good all the time!
074 Deuteronomy 29 – 31; Galatians 3.28 – 4.31
Open the eyes of my heart Lord. Open my eyes or one could say open my ears Lord, but open the eyes of my heart? Do you do discernment? Do you ask for an understanding heart? A wise person sees beyond the routine, the temporal, and the ordinary. A discerning person sees the extraordinary in the most unlikely places. At the end of their lives the Israelites, the wilderness generation, are finally given perceptive eyes. They wandered in the wilderness for forty years--do you think a wise heart is important. Pray, pray, and pray some more for a heart full of spiritual discernment.
This is such a rich reading for today's refueling. Make sure you read with care Moses’ charge to the generation who is about to enter the land. Be strong. Take courage. Don't be intimidated. Some of this message sounds like a coach standing before his players who are going up against the big rival that has gotten all the press and has the trophies to back it up. So we should be strong, take courage, and for sure we are not to be intimidated by the giants in the land in which we live.
Galatians 3:28 is like the banner of freedom waving over our community. We have a new deal and it is in Christ. God has put in a whole new system of evaluations and the old way of categorizing is out. Today, practice looking at people with Jesus’ eyes.
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