Deuteronomy 31 -- NOT A Good Meeting

I would have hated to have been a part of this meeting.  Moses knows that it’s time.  He’s old, they’re at the Jordan River, and God’s told him that he will soon die.  Joshua is taking the reins of leadership, and God tells him several times not to be afraid.  That must mean some trials are ahead.  Joshua heard God say, “Then these people will not be loyal to Me but will worship the foreign gods of the land they are entering.  They will leave me, breaking the agreement I made with them.  Then I will become very angry at them, and I will leave them.  I will turn away from them, and they will be destroyed.”

I can just hear Joshua thinking, “Oh, GREAT!  It would happen on my watch…”

Moses wrote down all of God’s laws and put them into a book and said that it would be “a witness against you.”  That’s what the law is for – to show us that we are sinners in God’s sight and that we need a Savior.  Left on our own, we resemble all too well what Moses said:  “You will become completely evil.  You will turn away from the commands I have given you.”

Despite our very best efforts, we’re hell-bent on our own destruction.  Thank God that we have a Savior who died for us and who offers to live FOR us, enabling us to please God.

Father, You made us, knowing that we would fail, yet You loved us anyway, enough to send Your own Son to die for us.  Thank You for such incredible love!

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford