Sat.’s Devo - Good Fruit

Read: Dueteronomy 4:1-49; Luke 6:39-7:10; Psalm 68:1-18; Proverbs 11:28
Mose gives his last speech to the children of Israel. God told the people not to add to his commandments or subtract from them. By the time Jesus came to earth, they had added so much of their own laws to God’s law that God’s laws were no longer important. Their own laws called the Talmud had taken priority over the Mosaic law. He also exhorts the people to follow the laws God because they will show them wisdom and understanding. He reminds them that no other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way God was to them. He hears every prayer they pray. Moses told them it was their job to teach what they had seen and learned about God to their children so that they would walk with Him.
He told them that if they ever strayed from Him all they had to do was turn and seek him again and he would be found of them. He also told them that they were to drive out a people that are much stronger than them. They would do that with God’s help and then they would receive their inheritance. Many of us are up against enemies that are much stronger than us. Our nation is fighting enemies that are much stronger than us, but they are not too strong for the Lord. That is why we pray and believe and put our trust in God. Nothing is impossible to Him.
Two of the enemies that the children of Israel faced were Sihon king of the Amorites and Og, King of Bashan. Those kings represented destructive words and shame. They defeated them both. They are still enemies we must defeat on a daily basis.
Jesus taught that if we allow Him to train us in his Word we will be like Him. When we build our lives upon Jesus, the storms of life and the trials will not blow us away but we will stand strong.
Jesus taught about how a good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart. This will be evident by his conversation. Next, he healed a centurion’s servant whom the centurion highly valued. This centurion was an example of a good tree that bore good fruit. He humbled himself before Jesus and realized Jesus’ authority with God. He got his request.
Lord, help us to not fall to the enemies of destructive words and shame. May our hearts be fertile ground that bears good fruit.