Category: Devotional Thoughts
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Day 078: Why do Jews Face East When They Pray? (Deuteronomy 27:11-13)
East was Egypt. East was slavery. East was the wilderness. East was graves in the desert. And yet God used every step of that journey to make His people holy.
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Day 077: Couldn’t Deuteronomy be More Organized? (Deuteronomy 12:32)
The Torah refuses to be skimmed. It’s not up to me to decide what’s “really” important. Instead of wishing for an index, maybe the right response is worship—thanking God for His law and His grace when we fail.
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Day 076: Leaders and the Law (Deuteronomy 17:18-20)
Israel’s kings were commanded to write out God’s Law by hand—not to reinterpret it, but to internalize and obey it. The real question isn’t what we know, but whether we live what we claim to believe.
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Day 075: Twisted Scriptures (Deuteronomy 15:16-17)
I once used Deuteronomy 15 to justify getting my ear pierced—claiming it symbolized my lifelong devotion to the Lord. Looking back, it’s a reminder of how easy it is to twist Scripture to justify what we already want to do.
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Day 072: Taking God at His Word: The Mezuzah (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
In Jewish law, there are precise regulations for where and how to place a mezzuzah— the box that holds God’s law. But the most important instruction for where to put God’s law is right there in the text itself.
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Day 065: God’s Provision, by the Numbers: A Devotional with a Spreadsheet (Numbers 26-27)
Through the Bible: Numbers 26-27