(Matthew 10:28-42) With today’s devotional passage being almost identical to yesterdays, it would seem that I there is even more emphasis needed on putting God before all things. I can easily see how it would be easy to put someone you care for above God. It is layed out very clearly in the Scripture that the importance of those in your life is to begin with God, then you spouse, then your family, then others and the church. There is a devine reason for this that causes a trickle down effect, really an overflowing of God’s love on down. This is my desire that I should have such a close relationship with God that His love will flow from me out to those around me!

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(Luke 10:25-36) When God gave us the command to love Him with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourselves, He wasn’t putting any conditions on loving our neighbors, that wa exactly Jesus’ reason for the parable. With it becoming dangerous to even stop by the side of the road to help someone, even helping strangers in general, we feel as though we can no longer be good Samaritans. Is our faith so small that we can’t put our trust in God for His safety even in light of the potential danger of helping strangers? When the Samaritan man helped the injured man, he was taking a social risk yet he was still following God’s command.

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(Luke 7:36-50) A quick note for today. It’s amazing how especially as men our logic gets in the way. The kind of love that Christ calls us to is really beyond what logic can understand. When the sinful woman wept at Jesus feet and washed them with her tears Simon the Pharisee began using his logic to make judgement about who Christ was. In those times the religious figures didn’t associate with people like that woman, so logic would deduce that Christ wasn’t who he said he was. However, what Jesus offered was forgiveness, and that forgiveness and love went against the norm of that time, and usually against norms in general.

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(Joshua 1:1-18) There are at least two promises at work in this passage. One comes from God and the other comes from some of the Isrealites. One promise was being fullfilled and that was the promise by a group of the Isrealites to go on with the others to fight.

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