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January 19, 2025
“The Tough Ones” – Are the Old Testament Stories Literal?

January 12, 2025
“The Tough Ones” – Why is God different in the Old Testament compared to the New Testament?

January 5, 2025
“Communion”

December 29, 2024
“The Christmas Story Chapter 1 and Chapter 2” – Guest preacher Heidi Vardeman

Christmas Eve, 2024

December 15, 2024
“Being a Messenger of Joy” – Rejoice in the Lord

December 8, 2024
“Being a Messenger of Joy” – Praying with Joy

December 1, 2024
“Being a Messenger of Joy” – Finding Joy in Relationships

November 24, 2024
“Listening to God in a World Full of Noise” part 2

November 17, 2024
“Listening to God in a World Full of Noise”

Daily Devotions

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Daily Devotions January 20 - 25, 2025

Monday, January 20
2 Timothy 2:14-15, 3:15-17
A Worker Approved by God
Remind them of this, and warn them before the Lord that they are to avoid wrangling over words, which does no good but only ruins those who are listening. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth.
and how from childhood you have known sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the person of God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
These two Scriptures from 2 Timothy have been used to justify a literal interpretation of Scripture. The Apostle Paul wrote that “all scripture is inspired for God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness …” 2 Timothy 3:16
Paul wasn’t making the case that every word of the Bible is useful to learn about salvation. Paul was sharing the importance of Scripture for teaching us and training us in righteousness.
Think of this Scripture as looking out a window in an airplane. It shares the 35,000 foot level on the role of Scripture.
Paul would most likely be very sad if he witnessed the battles and argument over the Bible that have taken place since he lived. He wrote in the first reading that we are to avoid wrangling over words—even words of Scripture.
These verses don’t share that every word in the Bible is completely important. They do share the importance of knowing the themes of the Bible to instruct us in the ways of salvation and training in righteousness.
What are your thoughts that these Scriptures give us a big picture view of the Bible? Please share.

Tuesday, January 21
Hebrews 1:1-4; John 1:1-4
God Has Spoken by His Son
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.
The Word Became Flesh
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into beingin him was life, and the life was the light of all people.
Over time the church has come to believe and teach that Jesus is the Word of God. When we read Scriptures we think of them in how they would relate to the teaching of Jesus. In fact the teaching of Jesus is like a strainer through which we understand the Bible. If a verse or teaching isn’t consistent with the teaching of Jesus, then it is not as authoritative in our life.
Jesus is the Word, and Word in this case is spelled with a capital, “W.”
John wrote it best at the start of his gospel. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. … All things came into being through him, and without him not one things came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.”
We find life when the words of Scripture lead us to experience the message that Jesus taught!
Do you believe that the Bible is the word of God or that the Bible reveals the Word of God? Please share.

Wednesday, January
22
Deuteronomy 21:18-21; Luke 15:11-24
Rebellious Children
“If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
The Parable of the Prodigal and His Brother
Then Jesus said, “There was a man who had two sons.The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the wealth that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them. A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living. When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that region, and he began to be in need.So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that region, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.He would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything. But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands.” ’ So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.Then the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate, for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.
Sometimes even Scriptures are not consistent. This doesn’t negate the power of the Bible. It reveals the importance of interpreting the message of Scripture.
If everyone followed the first reading, no male children would still be alive. For every male child (and female too) have had some experience of rebelliousness. The message in this passage is not consistent with the message of Jesus.
The man in the story in Luke that is known as “The Prodigal Son” didn’t follow these words in Deuteronomy. If he had followed these words, he would never have welcomed back his son. And Jesus would have never lifted up the father as an example of grace.
Not only did the father in the story not look to punish the younger son, but he ran to him when the younger son came back. Before the younger son could even get a word out of his mouth, the father was welcoming and loving the son.
All of us are grateful for the witness of this story! It shares how deeply God loves and accepts us.
What do these stories mean to you? Please share.

Thursday, January 23
Luke 10:25-28
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
One central message that Jesus taught was the importance of loving people. Jesus taught how to live out “agape” love, or self-sacrificing love.
Perhaps the greatest act you can do today is to go out of your way to share agape love with someone. Think how you can sacrifice in a way that is helpful to a person. Getting attention is not important; instead communicating agape love through your words or your actions is most important.
All of us are fortunate that Jesus was so clear about what is so important in our faith life. Love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and love your neighbor as we love yourselves.
What does agape love mean to you? Please share.

Friday, January 24
John 8:1-11
Some Women Accompany Jesus
Soon afterward he went on through one town and village after another, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to them out of their own resources.
The Parable of the Sower
When a large crowd was gathering, as people were coming to him from town after town, he said in a parable:“A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell on a path and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. Some fell on rock, and as it grew up it withered for lack of moisture.Some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. Some fell into good soil, and when it grew it produced a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “If you have ears to hear, then hear!”
The Purpose of the Parables
Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive and hearing they may not understand.’
The Parable of the Sower Explained
“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
In this story Jesus found himself being tested in a way that many of us can understand. Somebody puts us in a box.
In this story Jesus faced this dilemma. If he responded one way he would be accused of not following the Scriptures; if he responded another way he might be causing harm to someone.
Jesus masterfully responded to this situation. He wasn’t going to ask that the woman caught in the act of adultery be stoned. Even if the religious laws did communicate that the woman should be stoned, the heart of Jesus never would have allowed it.
In this story, Jesus wrote something in the dirt. Wouldn’t you have liked to have known what he wrote? What would you imagine that he wrote? Perhaps he wrote, “don’t hurt this woman” or “do not judge if you don’t want to be judged” or “this woman can be helped more through love and less through judgment.”
What does it mean to you that Jesus did not ask that this woman be stoned? Please share.

Saturday, January 25
John 4:7-26
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.But the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”
Everyone was surprised that Jesus would talk to a woman who was a Samaritan. The woman was surprised; and the disciples were surprised when they came onto the scene.
Jesus was willing to break the rules of his day in order to help someone.
His actions are less about breaking the rules than his desire to help. Jesus taught that what was most important was to love. If something got in the way of that love, then perhaps it needn’t be followed.
His actions were widely misinterpreted by others. Their misinterpretation was rooted in their inability to see the purpose of the religious law and Scriptures. The religious laws and Scriptures were not an end in themselves. They pointed to something deeper.
This is how we can understand Scripture. They point to something much greater than the words that they share. They point towards experiencing the love and life that God offers.

Daily Devotions January 13 - 18, 2025

Monday, January 13
Exodus 2:1-10
Birth and Youth of Moses
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months.When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him. “This must be one of the Hebrews’ children,” she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it.When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
This past Sunday Pastor Paul addressed the question, “Why is God so different in the Old Testament than the New Testament?” You can watch the sermon by clicking the link on the Chain of Lakes’ web site.
This series is part of an initiative called “Year of the Bible.” As part of this many people are reading through the Bible. If you haven’t joined them, consider downloading the reading guide at: https://www.fivedaybiblereading.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2025-5-Day-Bible-Reading-Large-Print.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3WU2OLdxpa_C0N86h1xOQw
You can also participate in a Facebook group. Do a search on Facebook for the site, “2025 Year of the Bible.”
The story of Moses is an excellent one to review to understand if God is different in the Old Testament compared to the New Testament. Moses experienced the full dimensions of God in his story. This week we’ll have the opportunity to read about significant events in the life of Moses.
Today we read the story of the birth of Moses. He was born into an extraordinarily dangerous situation. Just by being a Hebrew he was condemned to death. He was saved by Pharaoh’s daughter. Think of the irony! The daughter of the man who was having all the Hebrew children killed Found Moses and brought him up.
What does it mean to you that Pharaoh’s daughter raised Moses? Please share.

Tuesday, January 14
Exodus 3:1-2, 4:10-17
Moses at the Burning Bush
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.
But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.” But he said, “O my Lord, please send someone else.” Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What of your brother Aaron, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; even now he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you his heart will be glad.You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you shall do. He indeed shall speak for you to the people; he shall serve as a mouth for you, and you shall serve as God for him. Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”
As an adult Moses had to flee from Egypt to Midian because Moses killed a man. It’s interesting to think that arguably the most important person in the Old Testament was a murderer.
While Moses was living in Midian God appeared to Moses in the story of the burning bush. God did everything that God could do to convince Moses to go back to Egypt to liberate the Israelites from Pharaoh.
Moses did not want to serve, but God was insistent. When Moses repeatedly said, “no,” we read in verse 14 that God was angry. This characteristic of God is one that some think God exhibits often in the Old Testament and not the New Testament.
This is one of the first times that God’s anger is mentioned in the Old Testament. The word describes the intense emotional response from God to humans.
It’s important to know that Jesus communicated anger in his story. Remember the story of Jesus turning over the tables in the Temple? See Matthew 21:11-12 & Mark 11:15-18.
Moses experienced this anger or wrath. But despite the emotional response from God, Moses was willing to serve.
What are your thoughts about Moses serving God even when Moses experienced God’s anger? Please share.

Wednesday, January 15
Exodus 14:13-14, 15:1-18
But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.”
The Song of Moses
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he cast into the sea; his elite officers were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power— your right hand, O Lord, shattered the enemy.In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea. The enemy said, ‘I will pursue; I will overtake; I will divide the spoil; my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’ You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, doing wonders?You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. In your steadfast love you led the people whom you redeemed; you guided them by your strength to your holy abode. The peoples heard; they trembled; pangs seized the inhabitants of Philistia.Then the chiefs of Edom were dismayed; trembling seized the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. Terror and dread fell upon them; by the might of your arm, they became still as a stone until your people, O Lord, passed by, until the people whom you acquired passed by.You brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your own possession, the place, O Lord, that you made your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established. The Lord will reign forever and ever.”
Moses experienced the full intensity of human emotions. In this story he was leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Despite being promised by Pharaoh that the Israelites could leave, Pharaoh sent his chariots to catch the Israelites.
Moses stayed firm amidst a situation that had to cause incredible fear. These two verses that Moses shared amidst this terrifying situation are worth memorizing.
“But Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.” Exodus 14:13-14
Despite the ups and downs of his life in convincing Pharaoh to let the Israelites go, Moses trusted God. Even in an incredibly scary moment, Moses continued to trust God.
What are your takeaways from this story? Please share.

Thursday, January 16
Exodus 17:1-7
Water from the Rock
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”But the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do for this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”The Lord said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Shortly after the people were liberated by God from the Pharoah, they experienced a significant crisis. The Israelites didn’t have water to drink.
Moses was very frustrated with the people. We can imagine his frustration. Even though the people had been saved by God from Pharaoh, now they were turning on God because they had no water. Their faith was incomplete.
This story became known by many Old Testament writers. It became known as the rebellion at Massah and Meribah. The people had given up on God.
Moses was also frustrated with God. Moses wanted to know why he had to deal with this group of people who were complaining so much.
What are your thoughts on this story? Please share.

Friday, January 17
Exodus 33:12-23, 34:1-10
Moses’s Intercession
Moses said to the Lord, “See, you have said to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’Now if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. Consider, too, that this nation is your people.”He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”And he said to him, “If your presence will not go, do not bring us up from here.For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I and your people, from every people on the face of the earth.”
The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have asked, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you the name, ‘The Lord,’ and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.”And the Lord continued, “See, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”
Moses Makes New Tablets
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke.Be ready in the morning and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.No one shall come up with you, and do not let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain, and do not let flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.” So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.” The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
And Moses quickly bowed down to the ground and worshiped. He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, I pray, let my Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

The Covenant Renewed
He said, “I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation, and all the people among whom you live shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
This is a longer story, but it’s worth reading. Once again the people were rebelling against God.
Moses had enough. He wanted to see God.
This is quite a request by Moses. No one had ever seen God in the past and lived.
God had such respect for Moses that he granted his request. He passed before God. Pay special attention to how God identified the divine self in 34:6-7. God was merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
This statement by God is consistent throughout the Bible. God can be angry, but God is slow to anger. God did not change in the New Testament. God’s characteristics were the same. We just don’t come across many stories in the New Testament where God’s anger was shared.
Read again in 34:6-7 how God described the divine self. Do you believe these characteristics by God are consistent throughout the entire Bible? What does this self-disclosure by God mean to you? Please share.

Saturday, January 18
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Moses Dies and Is Buried in the Land of Moab
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,the Negeb, and the Plain—that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar. The Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”Then Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, at the Lord’s command.He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day.Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired, and his vigor had not abated. The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the period of mourning for Moses was ended.
Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him, and the Israelites obeyed him, doing as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.He was unequaled for all the signs and wonders that the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants and his entire land, and for all the mighty deeds and all the terrifying displays of power that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
This is the final story about Moses. God didn’t allow Moses to enter the Promised land because of what happened at Massah and Meribah. (see Thursdays devotion) But God did allow Moses to see the Promised Land.
Look at verse 10 again. “Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. (Deuteronomy 34:10)
What do these verses mean to you? What does the story of Moses mean to you? Please share.

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