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Discipleship Focus: Guidance
- Guidance: God grants us His guidance. Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation. Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen. Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.
Deuteronomy 11 could have easily been a chapter on obedience
(Follow God’s ways). Or it could have
been a chapter on Up (God brought you out and set you in a place of
honor). Or it could be a chapter on King
(God will drive the nations out before you).
But today I felt like speaking to the issue of guidance.
Moses is clearly acting in a role of guidance in this
chapter. As Moses is giving his farewell
speech before going up the mountain to die, he is absolutely guiding the Hebrew
people and exhorting them to walk with God.
Yes, the people have the free will to choose and historically we know
where they will ultimately land within their choices. But that doesn’t stop Moses from exhorting
them. He wants to guide them into the
righteous choices.
What is that guidance? What
is that which will help us live and not perish?
What is that guidance away from temptation and into righteousness?
Moses says it plain and simple.
Obey God’s Word. Bind His Word
upon your heart. Meditate upon it. Do it.
Live it out. Let God’s Word be
the light unto your path. Teach them to
your children. There are all kinds of
guidance in the words and ideas of this chapter. So hearing that guidance, how well do we
follow it? Are these just quaint words
in a book we profess to follow? Or are
these words to live by?
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