Psalm 25; Deut. 6:10-15; Heb 1:1-14; John 1:1-18
Moses warns them that when they get into the land they are not to forget the Lord. Surely this generation, raised in the wilderness, having known only this place and these privations, was taken aback by the suggestion that they could forget the Lord and go after other gods. For forty years it had been just them and Him and He had provided their daily bread and He had kept them safe from their enemies. How could they possibly forget Him? Moses knew what prosperity does to a people, contentment breeds self-satisfaction and it is only a short step from contentment to following other gods. It has always been difficult for God’s people to continue to seek after Him when their lives are full of other things. Moses reminds them that the Lord their God is also not a benign God in that He is also jealous and He will not share His glory, His love is not that of a kindly uncle, but a jealous lover, they are indeed precious to Him.
No more beautiful words are written anywhere than these 18 verses and yet, in the middle of the passage, in verse eleven, we see how completely they have forgotten the Lord their God, “He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.” They thought they were remembering Him but in reality they were misremembering Him. Essentially they were looking for some other god, not a god of the nations, their own God, but they had re-invented Him with all the same prejudices and aspirations they held and when Jesus came, He failed to meet their expectations so they rejected Him. We need to constantly be on guard against this forgetfulness of creating God in our own image. We need always to come to the Lord with fresh eyes and a heart longing for a lover, desiring to know Him more and more completely, and allowing His words and the images of His life of humility and service to be woven into our hearts and our lives.
This Jesus we serve is far superior to all other beings. He is not to be compared with the angels, those spirits who minister before the throne of God because He so greatly surpasses them. His work is finished and He has taken His seat at the right hand of God, their work continues. His glory is the glory of the one and only, He is the exact imprint of the nature of God, they share the same glory and honor in heaven today and in all things throughout eternity. If we would know what it means to be the children of God, we would set our lives on knowing Jesus and becoming like Him in order that we can restore the image of God broken by sin. It all begins with not forgetting and living in light of His love.
Knowing you, Jesus knowing you
There is no greater thing
You're my all you're the best
You're my joy, my righteousness
And I love you ,Lord
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