Devotions

“At a lodging-place on the way, Adonai (the LORD) met Moshe (Moses) and would have killed him, had not Tzipporah taken a flintstone and cut off the foreskin of her son. She threw it at his feet, saying, What a bloody bridegroom you are for me!”

Exodus 4:24-25 CJB

These verses seems to be out of place in this narrative, Moses being called by God to lead the children of Israel out of bondage. Until, we realize, that God is calling Moses out, saying if you’re going to represent Me, your house needs to be in order! This goes for us also!

“And He spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?”

Luke 6:39 NKJB

The point of these verses is simple. God calls us to lead people to Him, the promised land! Problem is, if we are acting just like the world around us, we become like the blind leading the blind. We need to circumcise our hearts, sever the worldliness from our lives, so we can lead!

“Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice.”

Deuteronomy 26:17 NKJB

Today, let’s walk in the ways of the LORD, not the ways of the world, so we can lead people to Him!

May your day be richly blessed as you walk with the LORD!

“Then Moses said to God, Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And He said, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.'”

Exodus 3:13-14

This indeed is a good question, we all have asked it, who are you LORD? His reply is the same “I AM WHO I AM!’ The LORD has everything we need, He is the greatest gift to mankind, the greatest gift we can ever receive!

“Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your fame, O LORD, throughout all generations.”

Psalm 135:13

We all need to spend some time today calling on His name!

“Look to Me, and be saved, All the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.”

Isaiah 45:22

Today, realize, there is nothing that can save you but the LORD! Not your intellect, your bank account, your humor or anything else you can come up with! Only the LORD!

“And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name JESUS, for He will save His people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:21

Realize, we all need to be saved and the only one who can is the LORD! So call upon His name ‘JESUS’ and allow Him to take you out of the bondage of this world!

Have a blessed day.

“Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.”

Exodus 2:11

Like Moses, how often do we intervene without looking up first, without calling on the LORD! Do we take things into our own hands or do we call upon the LORD?

“In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, For You will answer me.”

Psalm 86:7

Sad to say, we usually take things into our own hands, then call on the LORD, to fix our messes!

“It is better to trust in the LORD Than to put confidence in man.”

Psalm 118:8

Today, realize, the LORD has all things covered and before we act, let’s call upon the LORD and wait for Him! Have a blessed day seeking the LORD first, knowing He has all the answers!

“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.”

Exodus 1:12

It seems the more you grow in faith and the bolder you walk with the LORD, the more the world comes against you!

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

As a believer you won’t find peace in the world, but you will find it in the LORD! The more we walk with the LORD, the more uncomfortable we get with the world. You will have trials!

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials.”

James 1:2

Realize, you will have various trials in life, Jesus said you would. Today, don’t be surprised when they come upon you, instead look to the LORD, count it all joy and just walk through them! Have a blessed day seeking the LORD and His peace!

“Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who brought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.”

Matthew 21:12

We all need to be reminded from time to time that we belong to God and sometimes the tables of our heart need to be overturned.

“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”

1 Corinthians 3:16

Also remember the LORD paid a price for you!

“For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

1 Corinthians 6:20

Realize we belong to the LORD who paid the ultimate price for us, He gave His life so we could live! Today, let’s make our lives count for the LORD, let’s be living stones His holy temple!

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

1 Peter 2:9

Today, you may have some stuff on your heart that gets in the way of the LORD. Allow Him to overturn the tables of your heart! Then let us get out there and be living stones, shining lights that reflect the love of the LORD!

Have a blessed day!