03/02/2021 – Day 289 – Deuteronomy 1 – 3 // Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land
I recall a scene in C.S. Lewis’ fictional: “The Great Divorce” where lost souls were being cajoled to entered into the gates of heaven by loved ones and still refused to enter with all of it’s majesty, fully on display no less. So, God says: “Thy will be done.”
Our quote for the day from the footnote in 1:19:
“It is profitable for us to divide our past lives into distinct periods; to give thanks to God for the mercies we have received in each, to confess and seek the forgiveness of all the sins we can remember; and thus to renew our acceptances of God’s salvation, and our surrendur of ourselves to his service. Our own plans seldom avail to good purpose; while courage in the exercise of faith , and in the path of duty, enables the believer to follow the Lord fully, to disregard all that opposes, to triumph over all opposition, and to take firm hold upon the promised blessings.”
Matthew Henry
3:24: “O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?
And as I noted awhile back: It is a good thing that we have an eternity to know and understand God fully, because that is how long it is going to take us. Praise God!
My footnote to 3:24 reads: “We haven’t begun to see the greatness of Almighty God.”
“Pray that God might raise up men who would see the beauty of the Lord our God and would begin to preach and hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job and nicer cottage… What good is all our busy religion if God isn’t in it? What good is it if we’ve lost majesty, reverence, worship – an awareness of the divine?” A.W. Tozer