Wed.’s Devo - What is Important

Read: Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27; Luke 12:8-34; Psalm 78:32-55; Proverbs 12:21-23 Moses finished reading all of the law. He told them that he was 120 and would no longer lead them. God would himself lead them across the Jordan into the land they were to possess. He will do the same to the people in the land that he did to Sihon and Og so they were not to be afraid. Moses set Joshua before the people and commanded him to lead the people. He told Joshua to be strong and courageous because God was going to go ahead of them and He would never leave them. Moses wrote down all the words of the law in a book and gave it to the priests and told them to read the entire book to the people at the end of every seventh year during the Feast of Tabernacles. God called Moses and Joshua to the Tabernacle and appeared to them in the cloud that stood at the entrance to the door. God told Moses he was about to take him and when he was gone the people would begin to worship other gods and break the covenant they had made with him. Moses was to write down the words to a song God wanted him to teach the people so it would be a testimony against them when they entered into idolatry. Moses wrote it down and taught it to the people. Moses gathered the elders and leaders of the tribes and told them what God had said. He told them that they would abandon the Lord and it would make God very angry causing disaster to fall upon their nation. Chapter 32 is the song that Moses taught the people. It was their future prophetically and it happened just as the song went. It stops in the middle of the song and we will read the rest tomorrow. It does have a happy ending even though today we stop at a sad part in the song. In Luke, Jesus tried to make the people connect heaven with earth. What happens on earth, affects heaven. What we do on earth will affect eternity for us. He warned them against greed because this is not where we want to store up. We are only on earth for a short amount of time so what we do hear affects our rewards later. To have a rich relationship with the Lord is worth everything. Lord, help us to have the right perspective about life and eternity.