As I read today’s Bible reading* I saw God giving His covenant people two very clear choices. He describes in depth all of the blessings if His people will only love and follow Him with all of their hearts. The blessings Moses describes are incredible. It seems that the people — if they will only…
As I read the chapters in today’s Bible reading* I asked myself, “Why is Moses repeating the same things over and over again? Haven’t these people heard this before?” And then it dawned on me! No, they hadn’t! The reason Moses is going over the story again is because his hearers weren’t alive when God…
In today’s Bible reading* we see a few words repeated several times: commands, ordinances, statutes, decrees, and most importantly: covenant. In fact, these words occur over seventy times in just these five chapters in the CSB! One thing is certain, when the Bible uses words and phrases over and over again, God is trying to…
We read about a prophet and his donkey in today’s Bible reading*. If you’ve been around church for very long, you’ve probably heard about Balaam. It seems that he saw himself as a mercenary prophet, a prophet for hire. After seeing what the people of Israel did to the Canaanite King of Arad and the…
Today’s Bible reading* includes a Blessing prayed over God’s people. For many of us who have been around church for very long, we may be familiar with this Blessing. In The Blessing, Moses gives Aaron and his sons the content of what to pray over the people of God. This is a prayer prayed by…