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DEUTERONOMY 24 -27
This passage in Deuteronomy touches on so many subjects: Marriage. Divorce. Health. Justice. Fair dealing. Offerings. Blessings. Curses. When you consider how these four chapters fit within the greater context of the Law, I think they serve to emphasize the supremely important fact that God is sovereign over every aspect of life. The question we must face is: Do we acknowledge His sovereignty with a spirit of obedience?
So much rides on our faithful obedience to His will. Not only do we as individuals benefit from obeying God and affirming His ways, but our homes, our communities, and our nation stand to benefit as well. In Chapter 26, we see this clearly:
16"This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice. 18And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, 19and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised."
Ah! To be a treasured possession of God! Who could want anything more than that? And yet, that is exactly what we are in the new covenant of Christ Jesus. Through His Son, God has granted us the opportunity to be in perfect fellowship with Him. What better way can we honor Him but through our obedience to His commands? We can honor His steadfast love for us by exhibiting fidelity and permanence in our marriages. We can honor His love of justice by treating every person fairly and without prejudice. We can honor His abundant blessings by giving back to Him the best that we have received. In our obedience we can glorify God and give testimony to a fallen world that needs to know that there is a God -- a loving God -- and that He is sovereign over every aspect of life.
Rock on.
Chad Searcy
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ReplyDeleteThank you for the message. We always need to hear this.
ReplyDeleteI like your thoughts on the treasure. As a kid, I would spend the summers in Arkansas near the only diamond mine in North America. We would dig for hours and hours in the scorching heat looking diamonds. The sand would burn our hands as we shifted the sand for the diamond we just knew was right under our noses. Looking around, we would see others who had been digging for weeks in the 100 degree weather. Why? They also were convinced that one diamond was just under their noses too. Some people spend their whole life looking for treasures they will never find.
ReplyDeleteOur God left His streets of gold to find a treaure hidden in the darkness of sin. Nothing would turn His resolve from His mission. Satan tried to stop Him and man tried to trip Him up but His resolve to obey the Father was like flint. He would not be sidetracked from finding His treasure.
Like you said, we are His treasure He came to find. What a God we serve!!! And our Treasure isn't far from us if we only believe.
ps. No, I never did find a diamond but I found something far more precious! Jesus Christ the lover our souls