Deuteronomy 9:1-6
Today's Passage: Deuteronomy 9:1-6
These verses in Deuteronomy can serve as healthy reminders for us:
1. We are quick to focus on ourselves and not on the 10,000 other things God could be doing at any given moment.
(That idea doesn’t come from me, it comes from a quote by John Piper: “Every day, in every circumstance, God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, but you might be aware of only three of them.”)
We often speculate and guess what God’s motives or reasons are for bringing bad (or good) into our lives. This is why, not to oversimplify, we must truly learn to trust God. Don’t gloss over this. There’s a reason that the Bible implores us to trust God so much—we need the reminder!
The people of Israel were quick to assume that their good deeds were the reason for God’s apparent blessing they were seeing, but he was actually working for another reason, and that was for his own glory.
Which leads to number 2:
2. We are quick to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.
Remember that this is the same people who grumbled and complained and doubted God on the way out of Egypt. This is not to make ourselves superior to them (which would be falling into the same trap that they did, ironically enough), but to warn us.
We must seek to apply Romans 12:3 — “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”
Seek to prayerfully apply this today.
Written By: Graham Withers
These verses in Deuteronomy can serve as healthy reminders for us:
1. We are quick to focus on ourselves and not on the 10,000 other things God could be doing at any given moment.
(That idea doesn’t come from me, it comes from a quote by John Piper: “Every day, in every circumstance, God is always doing 10,000 things in your life, but you might be aware of only three of them.”)
We often speculate and guess what God’s motives or reasons are for bringing bad (or good) into our lives. This is why, not to oversimplify, we must truly learn to trust God. Don’t gloss over this. There’s a reason that the Bible implores us to trust God so much—we need the reminder!
The people of Israel were quick to assume that their good deeds were the reason for God’s apparent blessing they were seeing, but he was actually working for another reason, and that was for his own glory.
Which leads to number 2:
2. We are quick to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.
Remember that this is the same people who grumbled and complained and doubted God on the way out of Egypt. This is not to make ourselves superior to them (which would be falling into the same trap that they did, ironically enough), but to warn us.
We must seek to apply Romans 12:3 — “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.”
Seek to prayerfully apply this today.
Written By: Graham Withers
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