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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Deuteronomy 32:34-52
The final lines of Moses’ song recall that God is sovereign, that He is "the Same" and that consequently He can be expected to have the last word. What is this last word? Vengeance for His enemies who have gone unpunished for a long time, but also forgiveness for His people with whom the nations will rejoice during the millennium (v. 43).
Moses ends his teaching with a final exhortation to obedience: "Set your hearts" to this word, to this law, "it is your life" (vv. 46, 47; Isaiah 55:3; Proverbs 4:13; Proverbs 7:2). Certain young people think that to "live their own lives" they have to cut themselves off from all guidance and above all from that of God. These verses assert, and our experience confirms, that bowing to the blessed yoke of the Lord is in fact laying hold of what is really life. (1 Timothy 6:19. margin).
Moses’ instructions are finished. As a true mediator he spoke of the people to the LORD and of the LORD to the people. He is now going to leave the latter. Hebrews 13:7 exhorts us to remember faithful leaders who gave us the Word of God. Many of them are no longer here. However, the author of the epistle adds: "Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, and today, and for ever" (compare with v. 39).
