OT DAY 254 - You Don't Deserve It (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

       
           Oh sing to the Lord a new song;
                                sing to the Lord, all the earth!

                                  Psalm 96:1

        
 Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 9:4-6)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 9&version=ESV

 4 “Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you. 5 Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. "

                   Deuteronomy 9:4-6

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

My Listening

     After all those hardship and tests in the desert for 40 years, the Israelites might think that they deserved to have the Promised Land at last. Do you think they deserve it? 

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     God did not relate to them on the basis of merit. It was not their faithfulness that was key to God's giving them the land but the previous occupants' faithlessness. For "faithfulness" and "faithlessness" translations often have "righteousness" and "wickedness", but Deuteronomy's words are more specific; they suggest doing the right thing by God or other people, or failing to do so. As Moses notes through much of these two chapters, Israel's story at Sinai and subsequently has not exactly been a model of faithfulness. To put it another way, they are stiff-necked. 

 John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.129-130.

      Are you faithful or faithless? Are you righteous or wicked? Your able to be protected by God, blessed by God that you can enjoy the Promised Land, His Kingdom depends on that!

      You don't deserve it, but God loves you to call you back to His Kingdom to be a faithful and righteous servant following His lead. Are you willing? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Lead us to be able and willing to soak in your love that we enjoy the protection, blessing and power of your Kingdom.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. How does today's topic "You don't Deserve It" give you inspiration and new direction? 

2. Are you faithful or faithless? Are you righteous or wicked?

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXDGE_lRI0E

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