Week 3 Tuesday
Today we watch Abraham repeat an old sin, hear David contrast the flawless words of God with the empty words of men, and see Jesus defend His disciples before withdrawing to pray all night and choosing His twelve apostles.
Genesis 20-21
📖 What are we reading? Abraham repeats his old lie about Sarah being his sister - and then, at last, the long-promised son Isaac is born.
✞ What does this passage say about God? He remains faithful to His promise even when Abraham's faith falters. Watch for God's faithfulness in chapter 21, despite Abraham's failures.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Abraham's repeated dishonesty might baffle us - until we remember our own tendency to repeat the same sins.
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➡️ The bigger picture: Genesis, meaning "beginnings", was written by Moses around 1400 BC, and covers the story of creation, the fall, and the origins of God's chosen people, Israel.
🎤 A sermon by Luke on Abraham's child being born, from Genesis 21.
Psalm 12
📖 What are we reading? David laments a world full of flattery, lies, and empty boasting, and sets it against the flawless, trustworthy words of God.
✞ What does this passage say about God? His words are pure - "flawless, like silver purified in a crucible" (verse 6). Where people's words fail us, His never will.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? David laments the evil words of people. Consider your own words today – are they godly, are worldly?
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➡️ The bigger picture: The Psalms is a collection of 150 poems and songs, written by David and others, expressing the full range of human emotion in response to God and to life.
📝 A week of devotions by Luke on watching your words, from Psalm 12.
Luke 6:1-16
📖 What are we reading? Jesus defends His disciples for picking grain on the Sabbath, then heals a man's shrivelled hand on the Sabbath too - infuriating the Pharisees. He then spends a whole night in prayer before choosing His twelve apostles.
✞ What does this passage say about God? Jesus declares Himself "Lord of the Sabbath." He is not against rest or the law - He is showing us what it was always meant to be for.
🛐 How does this passage teach us to live? Notice that Jesus prayed all night before making this significant decision. If He needed that depth of prayer before choosing His twelve, how much more do we need it before our own important decisions?
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➡️ The bigger picture: Luke's Gospel was written by Luke, a Greek physician and companion of Paul, around AD 60-62. It is the most detailed account of Jesus' life, and is especially attentive to the poor, to women, and to outcasts.
A Prayer for the Day
🙏 Lord, thank You that You remain faithful even when our faith falters. Let our words today be flawless and godly, not worldly, and teach us, like Jesus, to root our biggest decisions in unhurried prayer. Amen..
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