Personal Devotions
Notes from Mark's personal Bible reading and meditation
With a goal to apply one truth from each day's reading to my life that day
Jan 11, 2025, 3:16 PM
Passage Read: Deuteronomy 8-11
Meditation Verses: 9:6-7
Thought
It is easy to forget who we are when the Lord grants victory over our enemies. We can begin to think we're pretty awesome, that the Lord loves us and blesses us because we're so good and righteous.
Jan 10, 2025, 3:17 PM
Passage Read: Deuteronomy 4-7
Meditation Verses: 7:25-26
Thought
Unbelievers make much of collecting and preserving artifacts from foreign cultures, but the believer in God has no business doing so with any object of worship. A foreign people may pour their greatest artistry into their objects of worship, they may cover them with all kinds of precious things, gold, silver, precious gems,
Jan 9, 2025, 3:19 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 36 - Deuteronomy 3
Meditation Verses: Deuteronomy 1:41-43
Thought
They thought it was easy to go in and take the land, but it wasn't. It required the Lord's help. These Canaanite nations were stronger than the Israelites, and this proved it. It would be a reminder that only with the Lord's help could the Israelites defeat the Canaanites.
Jan 8, 2025, 3:20 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 32-35
Meditation Verses: 35:33-34
Thought
We have become so "noble" so as to seldom put anyone to death for murder. We're so afraid of miscarriages of justice, of putting an innocent man to death, that we fight to abolish the death penalty.
Jan 7, 2025, 3:21 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 28-31
Meditation Verse: 30:2
Thought
Any vow a man makes is binding on him. There is no distinction between those young men still living at home and those who have married and moved into their own home. Young and old, married and single, every man is responsible for his vow, to fulfill it.
Jan 6, 2025, 3:22 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 24-27
Meditation Verses: 27:16-17
Thought
Here Moses is concerned for the Israelites, that there be an orderly transfer of authority, rather than an apparently random transition. Before he departs, Moses asks the Lord to publicly appoint the next leader, and God agrees.
Jan 5, 2025, 3:24 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 20-23
Meditation Verses: 21:4-7
Thought
It is not good to complain against the Lord, but Israel has done so many times. They are finally starting to get it, it seems. The Lord sends venomous snakes among them and they recognize that it is because of their sin!
Jan 4, 2025, 3:25 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 16-19
Meditation Verse: 16:3
Thought
Korah accused Moses and Aaron of appointing themselves as leaders over all Israel, but it should have been obvious to all by now that Moses and Aaron were chosen, sent and acting on the Lord's instruction!
Jan 3, 2025, 3:26 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 12-15
Meditation Verse: 14:31
Thought
The adults used their children as an excused not to trust and obey Him and follow Him into taking the land. They were afraid of the Anakim more than they trusted in the Lord.
Jan 2, 2025, 3:27 PM
Passage Read: Numbers 8-11
Meditation Verse: 11:29
Thought
Moses got his wish: This is the promise of the New Covenant, that God would put His Spirit in His people and write His Law on our hearts, so that we would know the Lord, ideally even as Moses knew Him.
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