Read: Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27; LUke 12:8-34:Psalm 78:32-55; Proverbs 12:21-23
Moses had always led them and now he was going to die. The Lord himself was going to pass over the Jordan into the Promised Land ahead of them. He would destroy the nations before them and take possession of their land for them. He kept telling them over and over to be strong and courageous.
Moses wrote down the law and told them to read it every seven years at the Feast of Tabernacles. (I can’t imagine only getting to hear God’s Word once every seven years!) When he finished writing it he had it put in the ark of the covenant.
Moses called Joshua to the Tent of Meeting where he commissioned him to be the new leader. Moses taught them a song of praise commemorating everything the Lord had done for them so they would not forget. In his song he tells how the Lord divided the earth into sections and gave them out to nations. He took one man out of these sections which was Jacob. Jacob was just a man he found in the desert that he decided he would love him and raise him to be his inheritance out of the whole earth. There was no foreign god in Jacob so he chose him. He raised him up to follow him but his children would rebel and abandon God for other gods. Then God would raise up a different people and make them his people. These Gentiles would provoke his first children, the Jews, to turn back to him. God would have totally blotted out the name of the Jews except he didn’t want his enemy, the devil to be able to taunt him with winning.
In Luke, Jesus is trying to teach his disciples the difference between the riches of the world and the true riches of God. It is not evil to be rich in material things, but the riches of God far surpass anything money can buy. There is no comparison. We, as his children, never have to worry about whether we will be taken care of. Our father in heaven is more than willing to do that.
Lord, increase our trust in you.
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