A walk with the light

Deuteronomy 30:11 (NIV) “Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.” Moses is talking to the Israelites before entering into the promise land, he just finished laying out all of the laws, blessings, curses etc. How often do we hear people say it is too hard to do something that they are told to? I know from being a kid and having siblings that this is a common natural thought. Moses jumps out ahead of that thought before he is finished speaking to tell us that it is not too difficult to do what has been commanded by God. He continues on to sum up and reiterate in verses 15 and 16, “See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands and decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.” The thing is, God always gives us a choice, it is our ...

Proverbs 29:23 “ Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor. ” I have seen this many times in my life, at work, in school, and playing sports. In a variety of different ways I have seen people who think they are smarter, more qualified, faster, stronger, or just better than others. Sometimes when the time has come that they are humbled the fall is not graceful. The word pride here can be equivalent of someone who is bombastic, boastful, arrogant, or conceited. In college I got to see first-hand someone who thought they were way better than others because they carried a 4.0 GPA. Then the time came where they received a B and they did not handle it well, they acted like their life was over. I have seen many athletes who did not train hard and were bested by those who were less gifted, but worked harder. In this life, everything that we do we should approach it with humility and work hard towards accomplishing our goals. We have to stay humble and make...