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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Deuteronomy 12:20-32
Through Moses the LORD has just recalled that, first of all, He has a right to the service of His people. However He is never their debtor. As soon as they have given Him that to which He is due, He shows Himself to be a God full of kindness who provides food for them and tenderly enters into their day-to-day circumstances. This does not give believers the right to please themselves in what they do! "Whatsoever therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). The New Testament confirms to the child of God that he should abstain from eating blood and keep himself apart from pollutions of idols (read Acts 15:20). This last prohibition is part of God’s caring for His people. Be sure that if the Lord forbids us something it is never arbitrarily to impose a hardship on us but to prevent us from being "snared" (v. 30). This same verse teaches us that the first step on the way to idolatry is often curiosity. "How did these nations serve their gods?" To be interested in evil is a sign that our conscience has not been deeply touched and leads us unarmed into Satan’s territory.
