Questions to Consider as You Read the Scriptures Today
- What are some truths about God, that you have seen in your reading today?
- Have you seen some practical truths about life in general?
- What have you seen about Christ in your reading today?
- Have you been aware of any adjustments that you need to make in your life?
- What passage that you read today was the most meaningful to you, and why?
If you would like to share the answers to any of these questions, feel free to use the comments section of today's reading.
Deuteronomy 32:30-52 ESV
32:30 How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.
32:32 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;
32:33 their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’
32:36 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
32:37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
32:38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!
32:39 “ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,
32:41 if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’
32:43 “Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people’s land.”
32:44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. 32:45 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel, 32:46 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. 32:47 For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”
32:48 That very day the LORD spoke to Moses, 32:49 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession. 32:50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people, 32:51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel. 32:52 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”
Luke 12:35-59 ESV
12:35 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 12:36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 12:38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. 12:40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
12:41 Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?” 12:42 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? 12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 12:44 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 12:45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 12:46 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 12:47 And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 12:48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
12:49 “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled! 12:50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished! 12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 12:52 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three. 12:53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
12:54 He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. 12:55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens. 12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
12:57 “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? 12:58 As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison. 12:59 I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”
Psalm 78:46-58 ESV
78:46 He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
78:48 He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
78:49 He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
78:50 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
78:51 He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
78:52 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
78:53 He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
78:54 And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
78:55 He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
78:56 Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
78:57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
Proverbs 12:24 ESV
The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.