The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Deuteronomy 9:13-14,
"I [the Lord] have seen this people [the Israelites], and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you [Moses] into a nation stronger and more numerous than they."
Here is a frightful and terrifying reality the Israelites had brought on themselves. The Lord indicts them as being stiff-necked and stubborn, verses 6,13, 27, having aroused his anger, verses 7, 8, 19, 22, being corrupt, verse 12, turning from his commands, verse 12, pursuing idol worship, verse 16, done what was evil in his sight, verse 18, rebelling against him, verses 23, 24, and distrusting and being disobedient to him, verse 23.
Because of these things the Lord told Moses to leave him alone to destroy the people of Israel. He determined to "blot out their name from under heaven." As the writer of Hebrews observes, "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:31. In Hebrews 12:29 (as he quotes Deuteronomy 4:22) he says why, "God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29.
I cannot think of a more horrible, fearful, dreadful and appalling place to find oneself in! God so angry he is ready to lay to waste the people of Israel! You will have to read the telling of it to find out what happens.
This account reminds me of something that has been on my mind lately. As I watch the news and listen to the things people say and do, it is apparent they live their lives without any regard toward what lays ahead of them in not so many years. "The fool says in his heart 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14:1. Consequently they live their lives in a way that places them in that horrible, fearful, dreadful and appalling place of hurtling toward the horrific wrath of God's judgment.
"I [the Lord] have seen this people [the Israelites], and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you [Moses] into a nation stronger and more numerous than they."
Here is a frightful and terrifying reality the Israelites had brought on themselves. The Lord indicts them as being stiff-necked and stubborn, verses 6,13, 27, having aroused his anger, verses 7, 8, 19, 22, being corrupt, verse 12, turning from his commands, verse 12, pursuing idol worship, verse 16, done what was evil in his sight, verse 18, rebelling against him, verses 23, 24, and distrusting and being disobedient to him, verse 23.
Because of these things the Lord told Moses to leave him alone to destroy the people of Israel. He determined to "blot out their name from under heaven." As the writer of Hebrews observes, "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:31. In Hebrews 12:29 (as he quotes Deuteronomy 4:22) he says why, "God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29.
I cannot think of a more horrible, fearful, dreadful and appalling place to find oneself in! God so angry he is ready to lay to waste the people of Israel! You will have to read the telling of it to find out what happens.
This account reminds me of something that has been on my mind lately. As I watch the news and listen to the things people say and do, it is apparent they live their lives without any regard toward what lays ahead of them in not so many years. "The fool says in his heart 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14:1. Consequently they live their lives in a way that places them in that horrible, fearful, dreadful and appalling place of hurtling toward the horrific wrath of God's judgment.
The utter disregard of one's own well being for the future is just stunning to me, particularly considering the stakes involved!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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