Month: February 2018

You will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:24 I wrote yesterday about how jealousy is appropriate in certain relationships. If I desire to maintain a right relationship with God and my family, I must be…
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For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4:24 I generally think of jealousy as a destructive emotion. I may be inappropriately jealous of a friend’s car or boat. At the gym, I may be jealous of those younger, faster and stronger than me. At church or work, I may…
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Do not be in dread or afraid . . . you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son . . . Deuteronomy 1:29-31 I have a hazy memory of a childhood dinner incident in which I dumped a bowl of sweet potatoes and steaming hot liquid into…
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You shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you . . . those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides . . . Numbers 33:52-55 It is not uncommon, in medicine, to diagnose someone with an advanced disease that would…
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Israel yoked himself to Baal . . . Numbers 25: 3 Though I go to jail bible study every week with a plan to share something with the inmates, I usually end up learning from them. One of the guys recently provided this lesson as he talked about why we fall. He spoke of the…
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Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. Numbers 21:9 Visiting the city recently, I was running one of my favorite routes, when I inadvertently ran by a towering building, which reminded me of one of the…
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Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt. Numbers 14:4 I needed to go to chemical dependency treatment long before I actually went. I knew I needed it, but I was afraid. I did not want anyone to know about my diseased behavior and I did not want to disrupt my life. I…
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“Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat . . . until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord. Numbers 11:18-20 In reading today’s passage, I could…
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Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving . . . “Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt. . . But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” Numbers 11:4-6 This time (late…
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If you will not listen to me . . . I will visit you with panic . . . I will set my face against you . . . Leviticus 26:14-17 Though I certainly experienced misery and angst in my addiction, I do not have to go that far back in time to remember the…
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