READING: Numbers 35-36, Deuteronomy 1
Disobedience costs. Always, at some level. And, sometimes more than others.
The book of Deuteronomy quickly shows us that truth with two verses (with the focal words of this devotion highlighted here): “It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.In the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, Moses told the Israelites everything the Lord had commanded him to say to them” (Deut 1:2-3).
Here’s the point: a trip that should have taken eleven days when the Hebrews first set out toward the Promised Land actually took forty years.
That’s a forty-year difference. All because of the disobedience of a people who let fear keep them from taking the land God had given.
That’s a heavy price to pay, especially when we remember they were forty years of a generation dying in the wilderness.
The cost of disobedience varies with each wrong act, but it’s never, never worth it.
PERSONAL REFLECTION: How much is disobedience costing you today?
DAILY PRAYER: “Father, remind me that disobedience never comes without cost.”
TOMORROW’S READING: Deuteronomy 2-4
