{"id":862,"date":"2019-10-23T00:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glorycbcdevotion.home.blog\/?p=862"},"modified":"2024-10-14T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:06:35","slug":"2019-10-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/devotion-2019_2021\/2019-10-23\/","title":{"rendered":"2019-10-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">Deuteronomy 15:1-23<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In this chapter, Moses starts by giving directions concerning the release of debts every 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> year, while cautioning this should not be an excuse to stop or limit charitable lending (v. 1-11).\u00a0 Next he addresses the release of servants after 7 years of service (v. 12-18) and he ends with the setting apart of the firstborn cattle to God (v. 19-23)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In reading a commentary by Matthew Henry on this chapter, I learned that if a borrower could not pay back the money that he borrowed to sustain himself and his family without reducing himself and family to poverty, he should be released from the debt, though, if able afterwards, good conscience should prompt the repayment.\u00a0 This honored the sabbatical year of the Lord\u2019s release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">We are reminded that we have been released from our sin debt &#8211; which is eternal separation from God &#8211; by the pardoning of our sin by the death and resurrection of Lord Jesus when we received Him as our Savior.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">In verses 12-18, Moses talks of the Israelite\u2019s slavery in Egypt and the \u2018LORD your God redeemed you\u2019 (v. 15).\u00a0 Again, the parallel of Jesus\u2019 redemption of us \u2013 buying us back from the death consequence of sin \u2013 with His life is unmistakable.\u00a0 In Jesus we find true freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">I find such beauty in this chapter as I read and reflect on the LORD we learn of in the Old Testament and remember the SAVIOR we are given in the New.\u00a0 My heart is unspeakably grateful for the love given to such an intentionally sinful and broken creation by the Creator and His Son.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8212;- Mary Mauderer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deuteronomy 15:1-23 In this chapter, Moses starts by gi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion-2019_2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glorycbc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}