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Remembering – Day 14

Few of us would think that we follow other gods and worship and bow down to them. But what we are doing in ignoring the Lord, or leaving Him out of our lives is submitting to our own intelligence. We are making ourselves lord of our lives instead of Him.

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

When you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down … then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

The Thought

More verses from the same chapter as yesterday, as Moses encouraged the people to always remember what God had done for them. How many of us know people who have fallen into the trap of forgetting what we learned in Sunday school? How many of us forget, or maybe we choose to not remember that God is responsible for all the good things in our lives? Maybe we ourselves have worked for those things. But it was the Lord that gave us the strength, the contacts, the intelligence, and whatever else we have needed to make our lives a success.

A few verses later, Moses continued with a warning. If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed (Deuteronomy 8:19). What a scary message to receive!

Few of us would think that we follow other gods and worship and bow down to them. But what we are doing in ignoring the Lord, or leaving Him out of our lives is submitting to our own intelligence. We are making ourselves lord of our lives instead of Him.

Many of us belong to families where we prayed regularly, and went to church together, but once we were adult, life became busy with work, partners, children and social life. And somehow Church lost its importance. We all know people to whom that has happened.

Action

Read Deuteronomy 8 today, and imagine an elderly person you admire speaking those words to you. Pray for help to finish the race set before you (2 Timothy 4:7).

Pray too for anyone you know who was brought up a believer but has now gone their own way.

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