Good Word for Today!

The Lord Be With You Today! Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, you nations, with His people, (Moses began his farewell message to his people at the beginning of this chapter with his own praise to the Lord, and now he ends his last words to them with a call for them to do the same and to join him in praise to their God. Through Moses, the Lord gives this charge as He speaks of a future time when He will gather all the nations to Himself, when He will call those who were not His people as yet, the Gentiles, to rejoice along with His people, the Jews. In Romans 15:10 Paul also reiterates Moses' underlying message here that both Gentiles and Jews will join together in praise and worship of the One True God and Savior and Lord.) for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies (One of the powerful reasons for rejoicing is that the Lord not only will deliver His people, both Gentile and Jew, but also will call His and, therefore, their, enemies to account. When those who continue willfully to turn away from God and to attack and war against Him, the Lord will exact vengeance by fiat, by His sole authority, and through His sovereign mandate exact the vengeance that He says belongs to Him, that He says is His to mete out. Their reckoning is sure.) and make atonement for His land and people. (At that time and through His righteous reckoning against evil-doers, He will cleanse and purge the land from the evil forces that have inhabited it, and He will be merciful and grant pardon to those who have committed themselves to Him. He reiterates that both the land and its people, both Gentile and Jew, belong to Him. For us today, not only do we look forward to a time when the Lord reigns supreme over the earth and its people, but the "land" of our lives and our very life itself belong to the Lord. He makes atonement for us and declares we are His.)   May the Lord richly bless you this day!   In Christ's love, Blessings!   Sally 513 254 3874

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Good Word for Today!

The Lord Be With You Today! Deuteronomy 32:40-42 "I lift My Hand to heaven and solemnly swear: As surely as I live forever, (So His people are sure to understand what He is about to say, the Lord raises His Hand, using the common gesture that people use when they swear an oath to tell the truth. As do people who swear an oath who swear by God, the Lord swears by God, by Himself, since there is nothing greater, no one greater, than God Eternal. He wants to make clear to us that what He is about to say is absolute truth.) when I sharpen My flashing sword and My Hand grasps it is judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me. (The Lord says that those who come against His people are His enemies as well. In God's just and holy verdict on His enemies, He will draw His sword of judgment from its sheath, sharpen it, and take hold of it, so there can be no doubt that He will use it. The flashing sword is a reference to the glittering light of His justice and shows how His judgment will pierce the injustice before Him. The Lord's message to us today is that He will vindicate those of us who have been attacked and overcome by the enemy, that He will inflict judgment on those who have set themselves against us.) I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders." (God's righteous vengeance will devour the deeds and lives of those who dare to war against the Lord. His judgment will come upon those who have fought against God's people, and He will defeat them and abolish them. While we today may feel alone or unprotected, the Lord God Almighty, the Lord Himself, proclaims that He protects and delivers and vindicates us.)   May the Lord richly bless you this day!   In Christ's love, Blessings!   Sally 513 254 3874

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Good Word for Today!

The Lord Be With You Today! Deuteronomy 32:39 "See now that I Myself am He! There is no god besides Me. (The Hebrew for the phrase is much more powerful as the Lord restates His Name. He says to His people that I Myself, I AM, am God. Despite His people having turned to powerless idols and away from worship of the One True God, when they finally see that their idols cannot save or even help them, and then when they are finally delivered and forgiven, the Lord proclaims to them the truth that there is no other god on whom to call, that He alone is God, that He alone is the God Who is eternal, omnipotent, sovereign, supernatural, and completely Other.) I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of My Hand." (His sovereignty alone determines His decisions, and only He alone can minister to His people's needs. Only He alone can deliver them. Today, though we may have experienced the Lord's discipline because of our failure to fully commit to Him, because of our unfaithfulness to Him, though we may have experienced difficult and challenging situations that life itself at times imposes on us, He promises us yet again that life in Him always follows death, that healing in Him always follows wounding, that provision always follows need, that deliverance in Him always follows discipline, and that His hold on us can never be broken.) May the Lord richly bless you this day! In Christ's love, Blessings! Sally 513 254 3874

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