Year 4, Day 184: Deuteronomy 33

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Discipleship Focus: Grace

• Grace: Grace comes to us when we make mistakes and have a failing of character.  Grace comes to us when we have a typical D₂ moment.  Grace comes to us when we need space to recognize a mistake, repent of it, and allow God to redeem it while calling us back into His will.  Grace is partnered by Time and Vision.

Do you remember most of Exodus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?  These are the major books of the story of Moses.  When you think about the Hebrew people in those books, what adjective comes first to your mind?

I’m willing to bet that you didn’t say, “Blessed.”  You may have said, “Rebellious.”  Maybe you even said, “Stubborn.”  Perhaps you said, “Arrogant.”  Maybe you said, “Proud.”  You could have gone for something like the traditional Sunday School answer and even said, “chosen.”  But I doubt you said, “Blessed.”

Yet, look at what Moses has to say about them.  As rebellious as they were, he blesses them.  These people are the cause that he can’t go into the Promised Land, yet he blesses them.  He would have every reason to call upon God to smite them and judge them, but Moses blesses them instead.

This is grace right there.  Grace is allowing people to recover from mistakes.  Grace is not shutting a door that deserves to be shut.  Grace is continuing to do the work of God even when you don’t feel like it.  Grace is bestowing honor to people who truly don’t deserve it.  Moses is truly a man of grace.

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