DAY 76 Read Deuteronomy 27 and 28.
Today's reading: Moses gives explicit instructions, including the words of blessing and of cursing that were to be used for the solemn service on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerazim when the Israelites entered the Promised Land.
Memory gem: "Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out" (Deuteronomy 28:6).
Thought for today:
In the Rocky Mountains of western Canada one comes to the Great Divide. In fact, you see a sign by the road, "The Great Divide"; but there is no great mountain. You are not climbing up a ragged cliff and looking thousands of feet on either side. You are not on top of a gigantic ridge. The change is so gradual you don't notice it. A little spring comes forth and trickles along and strikes a rock. Each drop of water seems to hesitate--one goes to the right side of this little stone, one to the left. That which goes to the left goes down to those great rivers which flow into the Arctic Ocean--into the frozen zone of ice and snow and cold, the long winter midnight. The other drop that hesitates finally turns to the right and goes down to the Fraser River into the Pacific Ocean and washes the shores of Hawaii and islands of the tropics.
There might be a Great Divide for you, just now. You may not know it, you may not feel it, and you may not even see it. You may be trembling on the great decision, the width of a hair, as it were, in your own heart. You might be a church member; but still some decision,which here and not at this moment may seem little, but could change your whole life for all eternity, for all ages to come.
Make that decision now. May the good Lord speak to your heart through His Holy Spirit. I only wish I could speak to you with the love and kindness and blessing and power of Jesus. May our dear heavenly Father help you to put Christ above all and at last be with Him forever.
Today's reading: Moses gives explicit instructions, including the words of blessing and of cursing that were to be used for the solemn service on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerazim when the Israelites entered the Promised Land.
Memory gem: "Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out" (Deuteronomy 28:6).
Thought for today:
In the Rocky Mountains of western Canada one comes to the Great Divide. In fact, you see a sign by the road, "The Great Divide"; but there is no great mountain. You are not climbing up a ragged cliff and looking thousands of feet on either side. You are not on top of a gigantic ridge. The change is so gradual you don't notice it. A little spring comes forth and trickles along and strikes a rock. Each drop of water seems to hesitate--one goes to the right side of this little stone, one to the left. That which goes to the left goes down to those great rivers which flow into the Arctic Ocean--into the frozen zone of ice and snow and cold, the long winter midnight. The other drop that hesitates finally turns to the right and goes down to the Fraser River into the Pacific Ocean and washes the shores of Hawaii and islands of the tropics.
There might be a Great Divide for you, just now. You may not know it, you may not feel it, and you may not even see it. You may be trembling on the great decision, the width of a hair, as it were, in your own heart. You might be a church member; but still some decision,which here and not at this moment may seem little, but could change your whole life for all eternity, for all ages to come.
Make that decision now. May the good Lord speak to your heart through His Holy Spirit. I only wish I could speak to you with the love and kindness and blessing and power of Jesus. May our dear heavenly Father help you to put Christ above all and at last be with Him forever.
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