Today is Tuesday, October 15, 2019 and here is your Daily Devo.
What is true of Israel’s hearts and of ours is that we will always seek our greatest joy. We will justify anything to get what we really desire. If the Israelites were turning away from the commands of God, it was because they thought His commands were keeping them from more joy. Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden. No one sins because they think it will bring them misery; everyone sins because they expect in some way—however short-lived it might be—that sin will satisfy the desires of their hearts.
If we look at the commands of God in Scripture and think we have to go outside of them to find joy, we are revealing that our hearts are the same as the heart of Adam and the hearts of Israel. “God must be holding out on us,” we think. “There is joy to be had, but He is attempting to keep us from it with all of these burdensome rules.” We thus are willing to work hard and do just about anything to get that joy. But when we believe these lies, we, like Israel, are forgetting the goodness of our God. He will only give us exactly what is best. His Word is a boundary to keep us in for our joy, not to keep us from it.
Think about this: What do we share in common with the Israelites in this account? What are some ways we can protect ourselves from being deceived into believing that we can find ultimate happiness apart from God?
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