March 6th Devotion

Deuteronomy 10:17 (NIV)
17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.

God made this statement right after He instructed the Israelites to circumcise their hearts and stop being a stiff-necked people. Israel obeyed the covenant of circumcision, but they often resisted God and resented His leadership. He let them know that their hearts were not right and they needed to change. It is as if they looked at the covenant as being binding to God, but not to them. The Jews of Jesus’ time had the same thinking when John the Baptist warned them:

Luke 3:8 (NIV)
8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

Is your relationship with God, one sided? Do you hang it over His head that your are saved? Do you make promises that you do not keep? Our God is an awesome God, who cannot be bribed and does not show partiality.

Love, Pastor Don