Deuteronomy 10:1-11  Click here for Bible Verses

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Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 10:1-11.  Let’s go!

Deuteronomy 10:1-11 (NIV)
 At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest.
 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest.”
 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.
 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.
 (The Israelites traveled from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
 From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water.
 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today.
 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)
10  Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you.
11  “Go,” the LORD said to me, “and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

On verses 1-11:  When I read these verses what strikes me is God’s persistence.  When the Israelites (spiritually) and Moses (literally/physically) broke God’s ten commandments, God didn’t give up.  Instead God persisted and gave Moses and the Israelites two new tablets containing those same ten commandments.  It’s like God was giving them a fresh start.

When the Israelites angered God with their sin such that God did not want to bring them into promised land anymore, God still persisted and decided to lead them there anyway.

That’s the persevering, persistent love of God.  Love “always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” (1 Corinthians 13:7) Even when we fail, His love is unfailing.  When we mess up, He offers us another second chance.  When others would have given up or not even tried, God keeps on trying.  So if you’ve ever had to love someone though it was hard, God completely understands.   That’s the way He loves all of us.

Father, thank You for persistent, persevering love for us, how for as long as we are alive You never give up on us and You keep showing us mercy.  There is no one who loves like You love.  In Jesus’ name, AMEN!