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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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A Most Sacred Order
Numbers 3:6-7
“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him. They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.”Civics, Sociology, Political Science, and other related subjects boil down to an invisible order inscribed in our souls that we could label as ‘God, family, and country.’
If we get that sacred order wrong in our thinking and living, if we put our government’s welfare before our family wellbeing that is, or if we put our loyalty to family before our duty to God, then our society will err. A Christian who believes that seeking first political and economic stability is more expedient than seeking first Christ’s Kingdom, or a Christian who thinks that family is most important and sacrifices church ministry for ballgames and karate tournaments, will suffer disorder. Conversely, people who get the sacred order correct but the objects wrong also err. If their god is Molech or Zeus or Ra or a rainbow flag-wearing deity, then the family unit won’t mean a husband, a wife, and children all pursuing the likeness of Christ together, but it’ll be a man and ten women, or a man and a man, and children will be disposable. And the government won’t be a coalition of shepherds serving the common good, but a mafia of godless elites drunk with power and greed. Sadly, nearly every society from Alexander’s Greek empire to Amazonian tribes has lived out their own application of this divine pattern and nearly all of them have gotten either the sacred objects wrong, or the sacred order, or both.
That’s why this Numbers 3 commonwealth stands out. Here, a class of dedicated priestly servants are the ruling class. Here, the governmental system is based on divine law rather than warring parties. Here, a tent of meeting where God’s presence abides replaces a kingly palace. Here, war and commerce and trade are subservient to holy sacrament. This is a proper country, a rightly ordered constitution, a genuinely liberated nation, because God, family, and country are ordered and objectified correctly.
Today, as your resolution, re-order what you’ve gotten out of place, friend. Ask the LORD to sanctify concepts you’ve gotten wrong, and priorities too, so that you don’t stray further off track.
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Awaiting the Dawn
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Tribal Standards
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Count Me In
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Hallelujah!
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Servant Status
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Enduring Love
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Don’t Light the Fuse!
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The Last Word
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Don’t Wait . . . Sing Now!
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God Knows Best
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Gunning for Bear
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Parental Endowment
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Steadfast, Immovable
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Paying Penance?
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Stone-Blind
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Going the Extra Mile
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A Priceless Pearl
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Revenge Denied
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Trying Your Patience
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By Faith, Not by Sight
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Begging Your Pardon
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Lift That Weight!
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Keep Swinging
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The Heavens Declare
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Let’s Go Fishing!
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Parking Space #23
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Measureless Grace
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No Man Left Behind
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Completing the Puzzle
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Skeletons in the Closet
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Deposits and Investments
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Piercing the Darkness
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You’re on Candid Camera!
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Dry Bones
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Without Love
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Father Knows Best
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Putting on the Dog
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The Dreaded Word: Practice!
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Walking in the Spirit
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Down Memory Lane
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The Stops of a Good Man
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Truly Good News
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The Good Shepherd
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People of the Word
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Imitating Christ
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The One Left Standing
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Invisibly Involved
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“Not Guilty!”
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But You, O Lord . . .
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God Uses Broken Things
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Then Comes the Good Part!
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Go to God
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Light Up the Runway!
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Faith is . . .
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I Believe I Will
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Under Evaluation
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Minority Rule
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Sabbath Psalm (Adapted from Albert B. Simpson’s hymn, ‘Yesterday, Today, Forever’)
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The Melody of Raindrops
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Inverse Psychology
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Right Between the Eyes
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Bon Appetit
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Our Word
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of Jane C. Bonar’s hymn, ‘Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy’)
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Dirt in the Divine
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Open Your Eyes!
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Gray Hair and Long Branches
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A Matter of Trust
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A Begrudging Virtue
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of William T. Sleeper’s hymn, ‘Jesus, I Come’)
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The Least of These
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Remedial Purity
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Mad Goat Disease
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Joyful Sorrow…And Other Paradoxes
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Seeing Double
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Sabbath Psalm (Revision of John M. Neale’s hymn ‘Art Thou Weary?’)
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Cleaning House
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The Buck Stops With You
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The Seminal Covenant
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Word from our Land-LORD
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Stop the Spread
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Sabbath Psalm (From Lidie Edmunds hymn, ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’)
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A Less-Than-Perfect Conception
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Altars and Alterations
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The City Center
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Hold Your Peace
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Fight the Tide
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Sabbath Psalm (Revised from Dora Greenwell’s hymn, ‘My Savior’)
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Hearts Ablaze
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The Glory in the Commandment
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New Dawn
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The Big Six
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The Hermeneutic of Hindsight
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Sabbath Psalm (A revision of Horatius Bonar’s hymn ‘Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face’)
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Earth-Shattering Faith
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Over-the-Top Confession
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Top-Top Shelf
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Pleading the Fifth
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From Immanuel’s Veins