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These daily devotionals are written to help you remain rooted and grounded in God's Word each day. We have one devotional for each weekday, and one for the weekend.
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Deuteronomy 4:27-28
“And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.”Do you remember in 1 Corinthians 3 when Paul expressed his frustration to Corinthian believers for their infantile appetite for God’s Word, bemoaning the fact that they’re still sipping on milk rather than eating meat? While Paul explicitly used that analogy in reference to the Corinthian’s sinfulness, I think it also expresses a deeper principle about the range of meaning in the Bible. There’s an infinite God behind these letters, if His infallible will is the object of these pictures, then the Scriptures are an unending buffet, with rows and rows and rows of nourishing meaning,and a spread too vast for our brief lifetime to span.
To me, the milk of Deuteronomy 4:28 is the ego-centrality of idolatry: “you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands.” That’s the point we can’t miss, that men love to worship themselves. We craft little dummies from the stuff of nature, in our own image, and sit them down on our laps as it were, and speak vicariously through them, and even bow to them, because we’re all gods in our own minds. Oh, how grave the injustice of our pride! How terribly tragic our blasphemous ambition! Can’t you hear God weeping through the letters of Deuteronomy 4:28?
Yes, but He’s laughing, too. That’s the meat of this picture, I think. There’s irony in these words: “They don’t see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” Because these are descriptions of human senses, not divine ones. God, Who is Spirit, doesn’t have eyes or ears or a mouth or a nose like we do. So, this is a reminder of how ridiculous idolatry is! Not only do idols fall well short of the standard for immortality—idols aren’t God—they fall well short of the standard of mortality—idols aren’t even men! Oh, how silly we are to waste our God-given faith and reason on senseless, heartless, motionless dummies of our own making!
We deserve more than wrath for our insanity, friend! We deserve mockery too.
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Latest Devotional
Dummies
Deuteronomy 4:27-28
“And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you. And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.”Do you remember in 1 Corinthians 3 when Paul expressed his frustration to Corinthian believers for their infantile appetite for God’s Word, bemoaning the fact that they’re still sipping on milk rather than eating meat? While Paul explicitly used that analogy in reference to the Corinthian’s sinfulness, I think it also expresses a deeper principle about the range of meaning in the Bible. There’s an infinite God behind these letters, if His infallible will is the object of these pictures, then the Scriptures are an unending buffet, with rows and rows and rows of nourishing meaning,and a spread too vast for our brief lifetime to span.
To me, the milk of Deuteronomy 4:28 is the ego-centrality of idolatry: “you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands.” That’s the point we can’t miss, that men love to worship themselves. We craft little dummies from the stuff of nature, in our own image, and sit them down on our laps as it were, and speak vicariously through them, and even bow to them, because we’re all gods in our own minds. Oh, how grave the injustice of our pride! How terribly tragic our blasphemous ambition! Can’t you hear God weeping through the letters of Deuteronomy 4:28?
Yes, but He’s laughing, too. That’s the meat of this picture, I think. There’s irony in these words: “They don’t see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.” Because these are descriptions of human senses, not divine ones. God, Who is Spirit, doesn’t have eyes or ears or a mouth or a nose like we do. So, this is a reminder of how ridiculous idolatry is! Not only do idols fall well short of the standard for immortality—idols aren’t God—they fall well short of the standard of mortality—idols aren’t even men! Oh, how silly we are to waste our God-given faith and reason on senseless, heartless, motionless dummies of our own making!
We deserve more than wrath for our insanity, friend! We deserve mockery too.
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Visual Words
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A Double Standard
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Actions Speak
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A Great Co-Mission
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Edward Mote’s hymn, ‘The Solid Rock’)
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Passing the Baton
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Divine Devotion
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King of the Grasshoppers
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Holy Dread
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Blaze of Glory
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Mary Kidder’s hymn ‘Is My Name Written There?’)
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Outliers
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The Father’s Arms
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The Prepositions of Providence
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The Grace of Problem Solving
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Make Me a Sanctuary
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s hymn ‘Blessed Assurance’)
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Spiritual Scars
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Better Judgment
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A Roll Call
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Kingdom Rising
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A Tale of Two Pilgrims
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Charles Wesley’s hymn ‘Depth of Mercy’)
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A Leprous Colony
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Word Spreads
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Dry Seasons Pt. 2
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Dry Seasons
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For the Record
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Sabbath Psalm (From Priscilla Owens’ hymn ‘Jesus Saves!’’)
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Monumental Letters
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A Second Impression
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Fighting Words
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Either-Or
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Striking Justice
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie H. Edmund’s hymn ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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The Fall of Balaam
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Justice—A Double-Edged Sword
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Spoken For
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A Divine Intervention
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Promises Performed
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Out of the Ordinary
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Dying Request
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Hand in Hand
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When God Speaks for You
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A New Genesis
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from John Peterson’ hymn ‘A Flag to Follow’)
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In Broad Daylight
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No Place Like Home
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Balaam’s Final Oracle
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Faith—An Oasis
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Balaam’s Second Oracle
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Henry F. Lyte’s hymn ‘Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken’)
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Balaam’s First Oracle
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A Language Barrier pt. 2
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A Language Barrier pt. 1
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No Solicitors!
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Out of the Shadows
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Palmer Hartsough’s hymn ‘I Am Resolved’)
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The Way of Kings
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Lost Books
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The Truth Bites
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The Hand-Off
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Rebels All
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Mary D. James’ hymn ‘All for Jesus’)
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Come to the Waters
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Eulogies for the Living
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Sin is Oh So Draining
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In Christ Alone
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Guardians of the Gift
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Sabbath Psalm (From E. W. Blandy’s hymn, ‘Take the World but Give Me Jesus’)
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A Sappy Symbol
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Rhetorical Righteousness
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A Powerful Posture
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Making Memories
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 2
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Philip P. Bliss’s hymn, ‘Let the Lower Lights be Burning’)
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Tribes and Tongues, pt. 1
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Stop the Rot!
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Jesus Love the Little Children
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Beating Hearts
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One-Sided
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Joseph Scriven’s hymn, ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’)
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The Beginning of Wisdom
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The Grasshopper Principle
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Do You See What I See?
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Time Out
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A Reconciling Rebuke
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Sabbath Psalm (From Fanny Crosby’s beloved hymn, ‘Near the Cross’)
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Unrighteous Rhetoric
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A Story Shared
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 2
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Moses’ Complaint pt. 1
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Famished
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from George Matheson’s hymn ‘O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go’)
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Burning
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High Notes and Low Notes
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Silver Chords
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The Waiting Room
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The One and the Many