Thurs.’s Devo - Look What the Lord Hath Done

Read: Deuteronomy 9:1-10:22; Luke 8:4-21; Psalm 69:19-36; Proverbs 12:2-3 God told them to go and possess the land from these nations that were greater and mightier than them. Their cities were great and had walls that reached to heaven. The people were giants and no one had been able to defeat them, but they had the Lord and he was a consuming fire. God would destroy the giants. It wouldn’t be because the Israelites were so righteous that God was doing this but because these nations in the land were so wicked and evil. *** Then Moses went on to show them their rebellious hearts from the day they left Egypt until they came to where they were now. When Moses went up on Mt. Sinai to receive the commandments from the Lord, the people had made a golden calf and were worshiping it. Moses took the tablets of stone and threw them down and broke them. Moses fasted for 40 days and nights for all their sins afraid that God would kill them all. Then Moses took the calf and burnt it with fire and stamped it and ground it to very small dust and cast the dust into the brook. *** The Lord wanted to wipe them all out but Moses prayed to the Lord and begged him not to do that lest all the nations who were watching would say that God brought them out to the wilderness to kill. They would say that He could not bring them into the land. *** God gave them new tablets of the law. The children of Israel went to Mosera where Aaron died and was buried and his son, Eleazar ministered in the priest’s office instead of him. God separated the tribes of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant and to minister in the tabernacle. The Levites would have no inheritance in the land but their Lord would be their inheritance. *** Now it was time to take the land and the only thing the Lord required of them was to fear the Lord, walk in his ways and to love him and serve him with all their heart and their soul. He reminded them that they had started a people of 70 and now had become a multitude. *** In Luke, Jesus gave the parable that was the foundation for his parables. It is the parable about the seed and the sower. Jesus ended it with “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” But to his disciples, he opened up the meaning. The seed was the Word of God and the soils were the hearts of people. Depending on the condition of their heart was the degree in which the seed would bear fruit. Then Jesus told them that they could not hide their light. The evil people could not hide their deeds either. Nothing that is secret will be kept secret but will be brought out in the open so all can see. *** Jesus told them to be careful how their heard because those that received the truth would be given more but those who didn’t receive the truth would have the little they did have taken from them. *** When Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, he told the crowds that his mother and brothers were those who heard the word of God and did it. *** Lord, may we be your people who hear the Word and do it. Thank you for not giving up on us but by cleansing us with your blood and giving us salvation.