We made it to our final week! Are you on track to finish Deuteronomy this week? How did this community reading project work for you? Did you feel more connected to your church family?

Moses finished his final sermon to Israel with a song and a blessing. In a culture of oral history, songs are often used to commit information to memory. God wanted the Israelites to know their history, and especially to know their own sinful nature. Only He could redeem them; only He could save them from the trouble they would bring upon themselves.

Finally, Moses blessed Israel, tribe by tribe. Then he blessed their passage into Canaan, looked upon the Promised Land, and finally passed away. Moses was never a perfect man. He not only murdered someone, but ran away and never stood trial for his crime. When called by the Lord, he made excuse after excuse as to why he couldn’t serve. As the reluctant leader of an unruly and ungrateful nation, he complained that his role was a burden. In anger against his people, he disobeyed God and cost himself entry into the Promised Land. All these failures, and yet God loved him as a friend and used him to lead a nation. God used him to write much of His own story, and God Himself buried His faithful servant.

Where we fail, God’s grace abounds. He will use us, He will continue to call us, and He will equip us for the work to which He assigns us. Look at Moses and know that failure and maturity ebb and flow in our walk with God. Have these past eight weeks encouraged you to surrender to God’s call? Thank you for immersing yourself in the Bible these past two months. We hope that you have grown closer to the Lord, and that you are finding peace and comfort in His will for your journey.

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