Prayer: Father, I lift Your name on high! I praise You with my voice and heart. Music and song spring forth when I praise You. Amen.
Reading: Deuteronomy 32 key: vs. 44-47
44 Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people—he and Joshua son of Nun. 45 When Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Put in your hearts all the words that I call as witness against you today—that you may command your children to keep and do all the words of this Torah. 47 For it is not an empty thing for you, because it is your life! By this word you will prolong your days on the land, which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.” TLV
Attention: “The Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem of the United States. By the time the song officially became the country’s anthem in 1931, it had been one of America’s most popular patriotic tunes for more than a century. The anthem’s history began the morning of September 14, 1814, when an attorney and amateur poet named Francis Scott Key watched U.S. soldiers—who were under bombardment from British naval forces during the War of 1812—raise a large American flag over Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.” (Quote from History website https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/the-star-spangled-banner).
Much like The Star-Spangled banner, the song of Moses sprung from adversity. God used the method of song to communicate the history of the nation of Bnei-Yisrael and the hardships which Adonai had brought them through. The song of Moses was to communicate the purposes of Adonai to give His covenant people a land of their own. That they would be His people and He would be their God. Moses final words admonished them to “Put in your hearts all the words that I call as witness against you today—that you command your children to keep and do all the words of this Torah. For it is not an empty thing for you, because it is your life! By this word you will prolong your days on the land, which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess.”
The words of the Torah (Law) are life to us as well. When we listen and obey His words, we are given blessings. On that day, Adonai also spoke to Moses and in assessing the life of Moses, God looked back and said, “because you both broke faith with Me among Bnei-Yisrael at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of Bnei-Yisrael.
For you will see the land from afar, but you will not enter there, into the land that I am giving to Yisrael (vs. 51-52).”
God’s judgement for his “breaking faith” caused him to not be allowed to cross into the promised land. Fortunately, the New Covenant provides repentance as an avenue to restoration of relationship. Are you guilty of breaking faith with Adonai and doing something against His Commandments? Repentance is so freeing when we genuinely fall on our face before God.
I hope you have a song or songs which pop into your mind, reminding you of the grace and mercy of God. If you find yourself living a lifestyle of rebellion, I encourage you to come to the end of your running and return to the Father. He stands ready and waiting to receive you.
Action: I choose to repent today and reconcile with the Father, my parents and family.
Yield: I choose to surrender my attitude of rebellion and repent today!
Engage: I choose to engage in a Spirit-filled lifestyle with Adonai today!
Relationship: I choose an intimate, obedient lifestyle with Adonai today!
Prayer: Father, Your words are life to me! You are the air I breathe and the joy worth living for. I resubmit my life to You. Amen.
Memory Verse: Acts 17:28
28 for ‘In Him we live and move and have our being.’
As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’
Music Video: Michael W. Smith—Breathe https://youtu.be/sP3f1_BpsF0
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”