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Saturday, July 18, 2015

OT DAY 263 - Do What Is Good And Right (Please click here for English podcast)

Please click the link below to my new 40 days Break.Build site any time you like to having a 40 days "Break.Build" daily devotion with one to two people as a discipler to help those Jesus prepares for you to disciple. You need to know that the call and purpose of my Break.Build and this Discipler123 blog/podcast is for you to become a discipler to help more people to have a daily intimate relationship with Jesus and then they can become disciplers too:
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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 and feel His presence. 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

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;
let the many coastlands be glad!

Psalm 97:1

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 gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Deuteronomy 12:1-32)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 11&version=ESV

Be careful to obey all these words that I command you,that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. 29 “When the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30 take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

32 “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.

Deuteronomy 12:28-32

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

Yesterday Moses talks about receiving blessings from God is so simple, one word "obey". Today Moses explains more about what does it means by obey. He starts with not following human instincts to do things because those Israelites tend to do things like the Canaanites do. God wants the Israelites to do what is good and right. But, what is good and right? Do you know? Do they know?

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

The instincts of Israelites and Canaanites were different from ours, and they were more like each other's than ours, but they raised issues that overlap with ours. In connection with Numbers 33:52 we noted the way the Old Testament talks about the Canaanites' "worship places," literally their "high places," and about the way the Israelites were supposed to "demolish" them.

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.135.

I know some Christians still follow their instincts to go to see fortune tellers, go to temples with their parents worshipping other gods and do all kinds of weird or even wicked things. They think that those things are OK. They think that most of the time or all time they are good guys and they never do any thing wrongly.

Moses brings out one very important issue. We do not know what is good and right until we have an intimate relationship with God so that we don't follow our own worldly instincts but to follow God's command. Moses is talking about God's command in the Ten Commandments and beyond. I am talking about our relationship with God and also what Moses is talking about.

Do you know what is good and right? How do you know what is good and right?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to know that there is no way for us to know what is good and right unless we have a daily intimate relationship with you following you as our Lord and King. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you know what is good and right? How do you know what is good and right?

2. Can you give an example of your making a mistake following your own instinct but not listen and obey to God's command?

Photos of our 30th Wedding Anniversary trip to Alaska