Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube of song and lyrics from Jeremy Camp singing … There Will Be A Day … poignantly singing of our hope, as Christians, to one day seeing Jesus face-to-face for eternity.
Highlight Verse[s]: Deuteronomy 34:5 [NLT] … 5 So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, just as the Lord had said.
… The Hebrew for “died there…just as the Lord had said” literally and figuratively means “was laid to rest with God’s kiss”
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Highlight Passage [context]: Deuteronomy 34:1-8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Moses died in Moab without ever entering the promised land; but He then was awakened in Heaven to be with God in the ultimate promised land.
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Reference Passage : … John 3:16 [NLT] … [ I’m sure any reader here knows this one! ]
… God’s kiss of promise and love … is that I, having received His saving grace, will be with Him forever in glory.
Reference Passage : … 1st Thessalonians 4:14 [NLT] … 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.
… Our promise in Christ is to one day awake to see Jesus face-to-face.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, David H Roper, uses a parental word picture of a father kissing his sleeping child just as God must’ve kissed Moses with the promise of His child being with the Lord forever in eternity. The ODB author writes … I have a treasured memory of gatherings with family friends when our boys were small. The adults would talk into the night; our children, weary with play would curl up on a couch or chair and fall asleep.
When it was time to leave, I would gather our boys into my arms, carry them to the car, lay them in the back seat, and take them home. When we arrived, I would pick them up again, tuck them into their beds, kiss them goodnight, and turn out the light. In the morning they would awaken—at home.
This has become a rich metaphor for me of the night on which we “sleep in Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 4:14). We slumber . . . and awaken in our eternal home, the home that will heal the weariness that has marked our days.
In meditating on the highlight passage in Deut. 34 in today’s ODB entry, it must’ve been disappointing for Moses in his last days to be able to see God’s “Promised Land” and yet knowing that he would never enter it physically. But at the same time, when he died, I learned that the Hebrew colloquial translation of Verse 5 of that passage (above), actually is translated Moses died with the kiss of God; and I’m sure he knew that he (Moses) would awake and be face to face with His Lord in Heaven.
That brings the picture of a parent kissing their child at night [see photo] with the faith that the child would be with them forever in heaven. And that is my prayer for all reading here who have children; and as well for those of us who know that we will one day be with our Lord - FACE-TO-FACE - forever [see 1Thess. 4:14].
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for the promise of being with You forever.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here, like myself, have surrendered in faith to God’s promise to be with Him forever. … Amen
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