Bible League: Living His Word The LORD replied, "I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest--everything will be fine for you."The Lord had given Moses a difficult task. He was to lead the people of Israel to the Promised Land. Moses was worried, however, for the Lord had not said who would go with him to show him the way (Exodus 33:12). The Lord assured him with the words of our verse for today. God Himself would go with him, and give him rest, and everything would be fine. All of us who are in Christ Jesus have tasks to perform in the Kingdom of God. All of us are on a journey to the Promised Land. The Lord called us out of our own personal Egypt of slavery to sin, led us into our own personal Wilderness of testing and trials, and pointed us to our own personal Promised Land – the place where everything we were meant to be in Christ Jesus comes to fruition; the place where we "will be perfect and complete, needing nothing" (James 1:4). Like Moses, at times we may wonder how we will get to the place we need to be; we may wonder if the Lord will show us the way. Our verse for today speaks to us just as much as it spoke to Moses. God Himself, personally, will go with us. God will show us the way. The promise, then, is not that God will give us a map and leave us to our own devices. Rather, the promise is for personal guidance and direction from God Himself. God will be there with us, side by side. And God will give us rest during the journey. We need not wonder and worry along the way. We can find rest in the assurance of God's promise. No matter what comes our way, and a lot came Moses' way, God will be there for us to help us make it through. And everything will work out fine for us. This does not mean that we will never see trials, troubles, and tribulations. Moses saw plenty of them. It means, rather, that our tasks will come to completion; it means that "God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished" (Philippians 1:6). Today, be at peace, for God is personally going with you on your journey. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingEzra 3, 4, 5 Ezra 3 -- Altar and Sacrifices Restored; Temple Work Begun NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Ezra 4 -- Adversaries Hinder Work; Artaxerxes Orders Work Stopped NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Ezra 5 -- Tattenai's Letter to Darius NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading John 20 John 20 -- The Empty Tomb; Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene, His Disciples and Thomas NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion And so he did only a few miracles there because of their unbelief.Insight Jesus did few miracles in his hometown “because of their unbelief.” Unbelief blinds people to the truth and robs them of hope. These people missed the Messiah. Challenge How does your faith measure up? If you can't see God's work, perhaps it is because of your unbelief. Believe, ask God for a mighty work in your life, and expect him to act. Look with the eyes of faith. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Revelation 22:17 Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.Jesus says, "take freely." He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance,--come to him, and he will give them to you. Come just as you are, and take "Freely," without money and without price. He gives himself to needy ones. The drinking fountains at the corners of our streets are valuable institutions; and we can hardly imagine any one so foolish as to feel for his purse, when he stands before one of them, and to cry, "I cannot drink because I have not five pounds in my pocket." However poor the man is, there is the fountain, and just as he is he may drink of it. Thirsty passengers, as they go by, whether they are dressed in fustian or in broadcloth, do not look for any warrant for drinking; its being there is their warrant for taking its water freely. The liberality of some good friends has put the refreshing crystal there and we take it, and ask no questions. Perhaps the only persons who need go thirsty through the street where there is a drinking fountain, are the fine ladies and gentlemen who are in their carriages. They are very thirsty, but cannot think of being so vulgar as to get out to drink. It would demean them, they think, to drink at a common drinking fountain: so they ride by with parched lips. Oh, how many there are who are rich in their own good works and cannot therefore come to Christ! "I will not be saved," they say, "in the same way as the harlot or the swearer." What! go to heaven in the same way as a chimney sweep. Is there no pathway to glory but the path which led the thief there? I will not be saved that way. Such proud boasters must remain without the living water; but, "Whosoever will, let him TAKE THE WATER OF LIFE FREELY." Daily Light on the Daily Path John 15:4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Romans 7:18,24,25 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. • Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death? • Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. Romans 8:10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. Colossians 1:23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister. 1 John 2:28 Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. 1 John 2:6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. |
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