Sun.’s Devo - Coming to the End of their Journey

Read: Deuteronomy 2:1-3:29; Luke 6:12-38; Psalm 67:1-7; Proverbs 11:27
The children of Israel had traveled from Egypt down to the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, then up to the wilderness of Zin where they went in circles until they had all died out. After they had served their 40-year-sentence, it was time to travel north, through Edom, and Moab. Then they would enter into their promised land. God gave them instructions not to mess with the Edomites or the Moabites because they were in the land God had given them. God reigns over the just and the unjust - he is in total control. God had used the Edomites and the Moabites to drive out the Rephaites, the Horites and the Caphtorites.
God told them to engage the Amorites in battle and take possession of their land. When that happened, God would put fear in the other nations so it would make it easier to take them. This was judgment on Sihon the king of the Amorites because he had refused to let them peacefully travel through his land when they came there the first time, 40 years earlier. The Israelites obeyed and took Sihon’s cities and Og, king of Basham’s cities. These were giants. King Sihon’s bed was more than 13 feet long and 6 feet wide.
When they got to the border of the promised land, Moses pleaded with God to let him at least cross and see the land. God would not hear of it but told him to go up to the top of Pisgah and he could see the land from there. Then he was to commission Joshua and encourage him to lead the people into their inheritance.
In Luke, we read that Jesus prayed all night then came down with a list of twelve men God had chosen to be his disciples. Did Jesus ever sleep? I’m going to ask him that when I get to heaven.
Jesus then taught the people from the coast of Tyre and Sidon. He blessed the ones who suffered in this life for his name and cursed the ones who lived in luxury while others were suffering. Jesus taught his up-side-down kingdom of loving your enemies and treating others like you would want to be treated whether they deserved it or not. He said that the blessing you give to others will come back to you.
Lord, help us to walk in the way that Jesus walked. Help us to love like you love.