Today’s devotion comes from Deuteronomy 5:1-5.
“Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:
“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today. The LORD spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire, while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. He said,” Deuteronomy 5:1-5.
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Today’s Scripture is an introduction to the Ten Commandments which follows it in this chapter in comparison to the Ten Commandments in Exodus chapter 20 which did not have an introduction to precede it in the same chapter.
Is there hope in this introduction?
If we think about “The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers”, we can think about the hope of what is next. We can think of “a new covenant”, “a better covenant”, and the following Scriptures.
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34.
And, if we think about “I was standing between the LORD and you at that time”, we can also think about the hope of what is next. We can think of a better Mediator and the following Scriptures.
“But now He (Christ) has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.” Hebrews 8:6. See also the following verses of Hebrews 8:7-13 which quotes the prior Jeremiah 31:31-34.
“For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.” 1 Timothy 2:5-6.
“For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.” John 1:17.
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