Devotional Guide -- March 23

Saturday, March 23, 2019
The Holy Bible: 

God Speaks to Man

“For this commandment which I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.” Deuteronomy 30:11, 14

The Bible often uses the word murmuring to indicate that the people in a story are unhappy. Today, we would probably say they were griping or complaining. One of the things that people often murmur or gripe about is how difficult the Bible is to understand. Not so, says Deuteronomy.

What Moses means, I think, is that we actually know what is right and wrong, deep inside. It’s as though we were coded by some spiritual DNA to know that lying, killing, and hurting another are wrong, that using foul words and damning others are wrong. But we do these things anyway, and that little DNA button goes off inside, activating our consciences and making us feel guilty.

The “commandment is not too hard for us,” Noah says. Isn’t God good to give us his law, to reinforce in words what we know in our hearts. In Psalm 19, David says, “The law of the Lord is perfect.” How grateful we should be that God has put the spiritual DNA in us to recognize good when we see it and hear it and that he has given us the written word to reinforce what we know innately!

Prayer: Father, how well you know us – that we don’t always act according to what we know! Forgive us and help us to do what you have taught us is right. Amen

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director