Wed.’s Devo - Practical Living

Read Ex. 23:1-13 I love how the Bible is a living book with practical daily living advice. Today’s chapter tells us not to lie about another person, not to follow the crowd if they are doing wrong. If you are on the witness stand, don’t change your testimony just because you feel sorry for the person because he is poor. Defend the innocent but convict the guilty. If you find something that doesn’t belong to you - return it. If someone needs help - help them. Don’t take bribes. Don’t be prejudice against a stranger because we are all strangers in a foreign land. For six years you will work this land, then you will let it lie still. The poor and the wild beasts will eat it. The Bible says in 2 Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” We will be on this earth for 6000 years and Jesus will come back. Then we will enter 1000 years of millennium. Rev. 20 says that the devil will be bound a thousand years then set free for a little while. This will be our time of refreshing and peace. After that, God will create a new heaven and a new earth. We are never to worship nor say the name of any god but the only true God. Lord, this sounds like Jesus’ sermon on the mount. Help us to honor you and love our neighbors as we love ourselves.