Read: Deuteronomy 31:1-32:27; Luke 12:8-34; Psalm 78:32-55; Proverbs 12:21-23
Todays reading, like so many other days, dovetails and says the same thing. Moses was about to die and he instructed the people about their future and God’s laws. He called Joshua the leader and encouraged him to be strong and courageous. He wrote down the law and gave it to the priests commanding them to read it to the people every seven years on the Feast of Tabernacles.
God called Joshua and Moses to the Tent of Meeting and commissioned Joshua to lead the people. God told Joshua what the people would do when Moses dies. They would rebel against Him and fall into idolatry. God gave Moses a song to teach them about their future. I wonder what they thought as they heard this song foretelling their downfall.
Jesus gave his disciples a glimpse into their future. He told them that they will be brought to trial for their faith then he gave a lesson about greed. The Pharisees taught that the favor of the Lord was evidenced in a man’s wealth. Jesus taught that to gain favor in the kingdom, you had to lose it all.
He told the parable about the rich man who stored up all his treasure into a barn and was tearing down that barn to build bigger barns when his life was taken. Jesus called this man a fool for storing up things for himself but not being rich toward God. The way to be rich toward God is to seek his kingdom first, then all the things you need will be given you.
The rest of Psalm 78 was a picture of their wilderness journey and the hard hearts of the people. They daily saw God’s provision and his saving grace. They spoke allegiance to God with their mouths, but their hearts were far from Him.
Lord, may we be rich toward You and may we lay down our lives and all that we have to gain what money cannot buy.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Thurs.’s Devo - Hidden Things Revealed
Read: Deuteronomy 29:1-30:20; Luke 11:37-12:7; Psalm 78:1-31; Proverbs 12:19-20
At Sinai, God betrothed himself to the Jewish people. The law was the marriage contract. The people broke the contract over and over even though God proved himself to be a great provider and to always be with them. God gave them manna and water. Their clothes did not wear out or their sandals. God fought for them and helped them defeat Sihon and Og and He brought them to the land He had promised them. Yet they broke their covenant with the Lord.
He was now asking this new generation to enter into his marriage contract. If they accepted the contract then decided to go their own way they would bring disaster on themselves. His sin would bring a curse on the land. If they returned to the Lord with all their hearts and soul then God would restore their fortunes and have compassion on them and gather them back together. Then the curses that had fallen on them would be put on their enemies. Today, he was asking them to choose the blessings or the curses - life or death.
In the midst of all that he put a very important nugget found in 29:29 which is, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” God does have secrets but he also has revelation that is for us if we will search it out.
Jesus told his disciples that man had no secrets. Everything they tried to hide would one day be open and made known. He was specifically speaking to the scribes and Pharisees who were so concerned with looking righteous when inside they were full of all kinds of wickedness and self-centeredness.
Psalms 78 says that God would teach in parables but the hidden things would be revealed to the children of God so they could pass them on to the next generation.
Lord, reveal to us your hidden treasures that we might know you better.
At Sinai, God betrothed himself to the Jewish people. The law was the marriage contract. The people broke the contract over and over even though God proved himself to be a great provider and to always be with them. God gave them manna and water. Their clothes did not wear out or their sandals. God fought for them and helped them defeat Sihon and Og and He brought them to the land He had promised them. Yet they broke their covenant with the Lord.
He was now asking this new generation to enter into his marriage contract. If they accepted the contract then decided to go their own way they would bring disaster on themselves. His sin would bring a curse on the land. If they returned to the Lord with all their hearts and soul then God would restore their fortunes and have compassion on them and gather them back together. Then the curses that had fallen on them would be put on their enemies. Today, he was asking them to choose the blessings or the curses - life or death.
In the midst of all that he put a very important nugget found in 29:29 which is, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” God does have secrets but he also has revelation that is for us if we will search it out.
Jesus told his disciples that man had no secrets. Everything they tried to hide would one day be open and made known. He was specifically speaking to the scribes and Pharisees who were so concerned with looking righteous when inside they were full of all kinds of wickedness and self-centeredness.
Psalms 78 says that God would teach in parables but the hidden things would be revealed to the children of God so they could pass them on to the next generation.
Lord, reveal to us your hidden treasures that we might know you better.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Wed.’s Devo - Walk in the Blessings
Read: Deuteronomy 28:1-68; Luke 11:14-36; Psalm 77:1-20; Proverbs 12:18
Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter of the blessings and the curses. The blessings are so good and they are to overtake us. You don’t have to read very far to realize which side you want to be on. Amazing to say, Israel chose the curses and truthfully, so do we many times. One of the greatest ways we curse ourselves is with our own mouths. Life and death is in the power of our tongues. When God created the earth, he spoke it and called what he created by a name. Whatever name he gave it, it became. Then he gave Adam the job of naming the animals. Whatever name he gave them, they became. We have that same responsibility. We are to name things what we want them to be called and they will become that. If you want godly children, then name them godly, etc.
In Luke, Jesus did the third Messianic miracle for the Pharisees and they had to come to a conclusion whether Jesus was the Messiah. Everyone was looking to them for the answer. Instead of naming Jesus the Messiah, they said he was doing his miracles through Beelzebub, the chief of devils. With their mouth they cursed themselves and the whole Jewish nation. The Pharisees were always asking Jesus for a sign as if all the miracles he did and the things he said were not signs enough. He told them that the sign for them would be the sign of Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and then reappeared on the earth. Jesus would die and rise from death after three days and appear on earth. The difference between them and Nineveh was that Nineveh repented and they did not. Nineveh was spared but they would not be.
If you are like me, you have to wonder why so many of us are going through such intense trials. The Psalm for today is a good one. The psalmist feels the same way, but causes himself to remember all the good things the Lord has done for him. He chooses to meditate on the goodness of God instead of the lack in his own life. Sometimes we have to dig deep and see that the the seed is inside us. We have to water that seed of faith with praise, worship, hope, joy, and love before it can grow.
Lord, watch over Your Word to perform it and watch over our hearts that we might speak the words of hope and faith.
Deuteronomy 28 is the chapter of the blessings and the curses. The blessings are so good and they are to overtake us. You don’t have to read very far to realize which side you want to be on. Amazing to say, Israel chose the curses and truthfully, so do we many times. One of the greatest ways we curse ourselves is with our own mouths. Life and death is in the power of our tongues. When God created the earth, he spoke it and called what he created by a name. Whatever name he gave it, it became. Then he gave Adam the job of naming the animals. Whatever name he gave them, they became. We have that same responsibility. We are to name things what we want them to be called and they will become that. If you want godly children, then name them godly, etc.
In Luke, Jesus did the third Messianic miracle for the Pharisees and they had to come to a conclusion whether Jesus was the Messiah. Everyone was looking to them for the answer. Instead of naming Jesus the Messiah, they said he was doing his miracles through Beelzebub, the chief of devils. With their mouth they cursed themselves and the whole Jewish nation. The Pharisees were always asking Jesus for a sign as if all the miracles he did and the things he said were not signs enough. He told them that the sign for them would be the sign of Jonah. Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and then reappeared on the earth. Jesus would die and rise from death after three days and appear on earth. The difference between them and Nineveh was that Nineveh repented and they did not. Nineveh was spared but they would not be.
If you are like me, you have to wonder why so many of us are going through such intense trials. The Psalm for today is a good one. The psalmist feels the same way, but causes himself to remember all the good things the Lord has done for him. He chooses to meditate on the goodness of God instead of the lack in his own life. Sometimes we have to dig deep and see that the the seed is inside us. We have to water that seed of faith with praise, worship, hope, joy, and love before it can grow.
Lord, watch over Your Word to perform it and watch over our hearts that we might speak the words of hope and faith.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Tues.’s Devo - When You Cross Over
Read: Deuteronomy 26:1-27:26; Luke 10:38-11:13; Psalm 76:1-12; Proverbs 12:15-17
Once the Israelites settled in the promised land, they were to gather their first fruits in a basket and bring them before the Lord. They were to rejoice over the goodness of the Lord to them. In the third year, they were to bring a tithe for the Levite so that he would be taken care of.
They were to plaster stones and write all the laws on them. When they crossed over, six of the tribes were to read the curses from Mount Ebal and six of the tribes were to read the blessings from Mount Gerizim. We have to remember that God is not only a God of blessing but of judgment over sin. He wanted his people to hear the laws so they would be accountable for their sins.
In Luke, Martha is up doing all the preparations and she is in her zone. Martha loves to serve and that is her ministry. Thank God for Martha’s. Mary was a seeker and a lover. She could care less if she ate or if anyone ate, she just wanted to hear and spend time with Jesus. Thank God for Mary’s.
Jesus didn’t rebuke Martha for what she was doing until she complained about what Mary was doing. All Jesus told Mary was that she was worried about things she didn’t need to be worried about and Mary had chosen best. We all need to be Martha’s at times but we need to know when it is best to be a Mary.
God really does want to bless us with what is best, we just don’t always know what is best for us. He tells us to ask for what we want. If we ask, we will receive and if we seek, we will find and if we knock on God’s door, he will open it. But…we might not receive what we thought we were asking for and we might not find what we thought we would and the door might lead us into a room we never thought we would be in. God is a good father who doesn’t hold back his treasures.
Lord, help us to see what the true riches are and what you have in store for those who love you.
Once the Israelites settled in the promised land, they were to gather their first fruits in a basket and bring them before the Lord. They were to rejoice over the goodness of the Lord to them. In the third year, they were to bring a tithe for the Levite so that he would be taken care of.
They were to plaster stones and write all the laws on them. When they crossed over, six of the tribes were to read the curses from Mount Ebal and six of the tribes were to read the blessings from Mount Gerizim. We have to remember that God is not only a God of blessing but of judgment over sin. He wanted his people to hear the laws so they would be accountable for their sins.
In Luke, Martha is up doing all the preparations and she is in her zone. Martha loves to serve and that is her ministry. Thank God for Martha’s. Mary was a seeker and a lover. She could care less if she ate or if anyone ate, she just wanted to hear and spend time with Jesus. Thank God for Mary’s.
Jesus didn’t rebuke Martha for what she was doing until she complained about what Mary was doing. All Jesus told Mary was that she was worried about things she didn’t need to be worried about and Mary had chosen best. We all need to be Martha’s at times but we need to know when it is best to be a Mary.
God really does want to bless us with what is best, we just don’t always know what is best for us. He tells us to ask for what we want. If we ask, we will receive and if we seek, we will find and if we knock on God’s door, he will open it. But…we might not receive what we thought we were asking for and we might not find what we thought we would and the door might lead us into a room we never thought we would be in. God is a good father who doesn’t hold back his treasures.
Lord, help us to see what the true riches are and what you have in store for those who love you.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Mon.’s Devo - Beauty and the Beast
Read: Deuteronomy 23:1-25:19; Luke 10:13-37; Psalm 75:1-10: Proverbs 12:12-14
We have to remember when reading the laws of the Old Testament that they are spiritual to us. The bottom line is that God hates mixture and demands holiness among his people. I’m going to get political for a moment so bare with me. I signed a petition boycotting “Beauty and the Beast” because of the “gay moments” I was told it had. After talking to several Christians who saw the movie, they said it was so subtile it would go right over the minds of children and it was a whole lot of hoopla over nothing. That mindset is how Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land. Christians didn’t react to the small subtile ways the devil was coming in the door and didn’t fight back. The truth about that movie is that the director is an openly gay man who had an agenda to put a few subtile gay moments in the film. The devil caused a huge commotion over it so that when we saw it we would think, “oh, that’s not so bad.” Since he got away with this little subtile entry into the door, next time, it won’t be so subtile and it will be a tidal wave that we won’t be able to stop. That is why God seems so strong on his laws. He wanted to stop evil from getting in the camp. Evil has gotten into the church because we don’t want to miss out on a little pleasure. They have now given that a name: FOMO (fear of missing out). Amazing! How about FOMO in regards to the things of God. I don’t want to miss out on anything the Lord is doing even if that means I miss out on a few Disney movies.
I don’t usually use my blog to preach but we as the church have to wake up. We are on the cusp of another Great Awakening in our land and I don’t want God to pass us by because his people cannot agree on what is holy and what is not. God is not judging us by what the world is doing, He is judging us by what his children’s reaction. Let’s stand together for our land and make it holy again.
Jesus cursed Chorizan and Bethsaida for their unbelief. In Bethsaida, Jesus fed the 5,000 and healed a blind man with mud along with many other miracles. Capernaum was also a city that Jesus did many miracles and cast out many devils and yet they turned against him. Jesus explained to his disciples that whoever rejected them was really rejecting him and whoever rejected him was rejecting God.
One of the leaders of the law wanted to test Jesus so he asked Jesus how to receive eternal life. Jesus turned it on him and asked him what the law said. He answered correctly - Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. (He must have heard Jesus earlier sermon.) So to trick him, he asked Jesus who his neighbor was. Jesus gave him the story of the good Samaritan. It was a slap in the leaders face because the one who was the hero was not the priest or the Levite in the story. The one who loved his neighbor was a Samaritan. He was the neighbor to the Israelite. Jesus asked him who was the neighbor and he said the one who showed mercy. Jesus told him to go and do the same. I wonder if he did.
Lord, we don’t want to miss out on our destiny for today. May we be attentive and have our ears open to your cry.
We have to remember when reading the laws of the Old Testament that they are spiritual to us. The bottom line is that God hates mixture and demands holiness among his people. I’m going to get political for a moment so bare with me. I signed a petition boycotting “Beauty and the Beast” because of the “gay moments” I was told it had. After talking to several Christians who saw the movie, they said it was so subtile it would go right over the minds of children and it was a whole lot of hoopla over nothing. That mindset is how Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land. Christians didn’t react to the small subtile ways the devil was coming in the door and didn’t fight back. The truth about that movie is that the director is an openly gay man who had an agenda to put a few subtile gay moments in the film. The devil caused a huge commotion over it so that when we saw it we would think, “oh, that’s not so bad.” Since he got away with this little subtile entry into the door, next time, it won’t be so subtile and it will be a tidal wave that we won’t be able to stop. That is why God seems so strong on his laws. He wanted to stop evil from getting in the camp. Evil has gotten into the church because we don’t want to miss out on a little pleasure. They have now given that a name: FOMO (fear of missing out). Amazing! How about FOMO in regards to the things of God. I don’t want to miss out on anything the Lord is doing even if that means I miss out on a few Disney movies.
I don’t usually use my blog to preach but we as the church have to wake up. We are on the cusp of another Great Awakening in our land and I don’t want God to pass us by because his people cannot agree on what is holy and what is not. God is not judging us by what the world is doing, He is judging us by what his children’s reaction. Let’s stand together for our land and make it holy again.
Jesus cursed Chorizan and Bethsaida for their unbelief. In Bethsaida, Jesus fed the 5,000 and healed a blind man with mud along with many other miracles. Capernaum was also a city that Jesus did many miracles and cast out many devils and yet they turned against him. Jesus explained to his disciples that whoever rejected them was really rejecting him and whoever rejected him was rejecting God.
One of the leaders of the law wanted to test Jesus so he asked Jesus how to receive eternal life. Jesus turned it on him and asked him what the law said. He answered correctly - Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. (He must have heard Jesus earlier sermon.) So to trick him, he asked Jesus who his neighbor was. Jesus gave him the story of the good Samaritan. It was a slap in the leaders face because the one who was the hero was not the priest or the Levite in the story. The one who loved his neighbor was a Samaritan. He was the neighbor to the Israelite. Jesus asked him who was the neighbor and he said the one who showed mercy. Jesus told him to go and do the same. I wonder if he did.
Lord, we don’t want to miss out on our destiny for today. May we be attentive and have our ears open to your cry.
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Sun.’s Devo - Restore
Read: Deuteronomy 21:1-22:30; Luke 9:51-10:12; Psalm 74:1-23
It doesn’t take long reading today’s scripture to see how far we have strayed from them. God’s law are God’s wisdom and his heart. He wanted Israel to be set apart and holy. He made us to be sexual people but he gave us definite guidelines and boundaries for our good.
If a warrior sees a woman who is a virgin in the country they are attacking, he can take her home. He is to trim her nails and shave her head and give her new clothes. She is to live with him and his parents for a month. During this month, she will learn the lifestyle of the Israelite that she is expected to live. Her true colors should emerge during this time. If he still wants to marry her, then he can. If after they are married for a while, he is not pleased with her, he can set her free. This is a picture of someone who falls for an unsaved person. This is the only one, that he is told he can divorce her. In the other situations, God tells him he must stay married for life.
The next scenerio (21:15-17) of the two wives is exactly what happened with Jacob and Rachael and Leah. Jacob loved Rachael more. He was tricked into marrying Leah and making her son the firstborn. When Rachael finally had Joseph, Jacob treated him with more favor than all his other sons. In his eyes, he was the first born. He had a robe made for him to show his affection toward Joseph. Needless to say, this did not go over well with his brothers, but God had the last word. Joseph did go to rule over all of them. If we don’t get in the way, God will restore things as they should have been.
A woman was not to wear men’s clothing or vice versa because God detests this! That wouldn’t fly today.
I want to talk about one other law. If a person was to see a stray ox or sheep, he was not to ignore it. He was to take it home and keep it till he found the owner or help it get to its feet if it has fallen. What a picture of what we are to do when we see someone who has strayed from their walk with God. We are not to ignore it. We are either to take this person on as we would want someone to do to our son or daughter or we are to help that person get back on their feet. We are not to just ignore them. This is a conformation to me about what we are doing. We have brought our youngest son and family back to live with us to help them get on their feet. It is involving mentoring, schooling, and much of our finances… but we can’t ignore them. We want to be able to turn them back over to the Lord restored.
As Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem to die, he encountered three men who wanted to follow him. Jesus answered them according to their heart. They wanted to follow Jesus with their words but when it came down to acting on it, they weaseled out. Jesus appointed 72 others and sent them out. He explained exactly how it was going to be for the ones who “followed him”. They would be lambs among wolves. It would be a total walk of faith.
God is not into numbers but into the few that are totally sold out. He can work with them.
Lord, help us to walk in your shoes in faith and courage. Help us to be totally sold out.
It doesn’t take long reading today’s scripture to see how far we have strayed from them. God’s law are God’s wisdom and his heart. He wanted Israel to be set apart and holy. He made us to be sexual people but he gave us definite guidelines and boundaries for our good.
If a warrior sees a woman who is a virgin in the country they are attacking, he can take her home. He is to trim her nails and shave her head and give her new clothes. She is to live with him and his parents for a month. During this month, she will learn the lifestyle of the Israelite that she is expected to live. Her true colors should emerge during this time. If he still wants to marry her, then he can. If after they are married for a while, he is not pleased with her, he can set her free. This is a picture of someone who falls for an unsaved person. This is the only one, that he is told he can divorce her. In the other situations, God tells him he must stay married for life.
The next scenerio (21:15-17) of the two wives is exactly what happened with Jacob and Rachael and Leah. Jacob loved Rachael more. He was tricked into marrying Leah and making her son the firstborn. When Rachael finally had Joseph, Jacob treated him with more favor than all his other sons. In his eyes, he was the first born. He had a robe made for him to show his affection toward Joseph. Needless to say, this did not go over well with his brothers, but God had the last word. Joseph did go to rule over all of them. If we don’t get in the way, God will restore things as they should have been.
A woman was not to wear men’s clothing or vice versa because God detests this! That wouldn’t fly today.
I want to talk about one other law. If a person was to see a stray ox or sheep, he was not to ignore it. He was to take it home and keep it till he found the owner or help it get to its feet if it has fallen. What a picture of what we are to do when we see someone who has strayed from their walk with God. We are not to ignore it. We are either to take this person on as we would want someone to do to our son or daughter or we are to help that person get back on their feet. We are not to just ignore them. This is a conformation to me about what we are doing. We have brought our youngest son and family back to live with us to help them get on their feet. It is involving mentoring, schooling, and much of our finances… but we can’t ignore them. We want to be able to turn them back over to the Lord restored.
As Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem to die, he encountered three men who wanted to follow him. Jesus answered them according to their heart. They wanted to follow Jesus with their words but when it came down to acting on it, they weaseled out. Jesus appointed 72 others and sent them out. He explained exactly how it was going to be for the ones who “followed him”. They would be lambs among wolves. It would be a total walk of faith.
God is not into numbers but into the few that are totally sold out. He can work with them.
Lord, help us to walk in your shoes in faith and courage. Help us to be totally sold out.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Sat.’s Devo - God’s Concepts
Read: Deuteronomy 18:1-20:20; Luke 9:28-50; Psalm 73:1-28; Proverbs 12:10
God wanted the people to take care of the Levite’s needs. They were not to be poor but to have the best because they stood for the Lord on the earth. Since the people were afraid of hearing God’s voice for themselves, God promised to raise up prophets that would speak for him. They were to listen to what the prophet said and test his words to see if they came true.
They were to set up cities of refuge in the middle of their lands so that the innocent would have a place to be safe.
They were to treat each other fairly and not steal each other’s land. It took two witnesses to condemn a person or set them free.
When they went to war, the priests were to stand before them and command them not to be afraid or terrified or panic because it is the Lord their God who goes with them to fight and He will give them victory. If they had distractions or fears then they were excused from battle so that they wouldn’t distract or spread their fear to their fellow soldiers. When they went against their enemies they were to totally destroy anyone that had breath because if they were allowed to live they would become a snare to them.
All of these laws pertain to us. We are to pay our pastors and ministers well and we, as ministers, are to have our needs met. We can enjoy the best God has if we have faith.
When Jesus died, God tore the veil that separated man from God. We can hear the voice of God ourselves.
Jesus is our city of refuge and we are safe from the accuser of the brethren when we run to Him.
We are to love one another as we love ourselves.
Our war is not against flesh and blood so when we go to battle against the spiritual demons and principalities we need to pray with like believers who are not afraid of them. We are not to be intimidated or terrorized by any spirit but we are to take authority over him because God has placed him under our feet and we do have the victory.
In Luke, Jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. To celebrate this feast, everyone made temporary tabernacles to live in for a week. This was to remind the people that they were sojourners on the earth and their true lasting home was in heaven. So when they saw Moses and Elijah on the mountain they wanted to erect a tabernacle for them. We don’t know what Jesus, Moses and Elijah talked about, but as soon as Jesus got alone with his disciples, he told them he was going to be betrayed into man’s hands. I wonder if he didn’t hear this from the Old Testament prophets.
The disciples and Jesus experienced a “mountain-top” experience and as soon as they got down, the devil was there waiting and mad. Jesus was presented a boy who manifested demons in a most demonstrative way. I have found that the devil screams loudest when he has been hit the hardest.
Lord, help us to obey all of your precepts and may your law be in our hearts always. Help us to remember that this is not our home.
God wanted the people to take care of the Levite’s needs. They were not to be poor but to have the best because they stood for the Lord on the earth. Since the people were afraid of hearing God’s voice for themselves, God promised to raise up prophets that would speak for him. They were to listen to what the prophet said and test his words to see if they came true.
They were to set up cities of refuge in the middle of their lands so that the innocent would have a place to be safe.
They were to treat each other fairly and not steal each other’s land. It took two witnesses to condemn a person or set them free.
When they went to war, the priests were to stand before them and command them not to be afraid or terrified or panic because it is the Lord their God who goes with them to fight and He will give them victory. If they had distractions or fears then they were excused from battle so that they wouldn’t distract or spread their fear to their fellow soldiers. When they went against their enemies they were to totally destroy anyone that had breath because if they were allowed to live they would become a snare to them.
All of these laws pertain to us. We are to pay our pastors and ministers well and we, as ministers, are to have our needs met. We can enjoy the best God has if we have faith.
When Jesus died, God tore the veil that separated man from God. We can hear the voice of God ourselves.
Jesus is our city of refuge and we are safe from the accuser of the brethren when we run to Him.
We are to love one another as we love ourselves.
Our war is not against flesh and blood so when we go to battle against the spiritual demons and principalities we need to pray with like believers who are not afraid of them. We are not to be intimidated or terrorized by any spirit but we are to take authority over him because God has placed him under our feet and we do have the victory.
In Luke, Jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. To celebrate this feast, everyone made temporary tabernacles to live in for a week. This was to remind the people that they were sojourners on the earth and their true lasting home was in heaven. So when they saw Moses and Elijah on the mountain they wanted to erect a tabernacle for them. We don’t know what Jesus, Moses and Elijah talked about, but as soon as Jesus got alone with his disciples, he told them he was going to be betrayed into man’s hands. I wonder if he didn’t hear this from the Old Testament prophets.
The disciples and Jesus experienced a “mountain-top” experience and as soon as they got down, the devil was there waiting and mad. Jesus was presented a boy who manifested demons in a most demonstrative way. I have found that the devil screams loudest when he has been hit the hardest.
Lord, help us to obey all of your precepts and may your law be in our hearts always. Help us to remember that this is not our home.
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