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THE WRITTEN WORDS AND TRUE WORSHIP
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
Deuteronomy 27:1-8
1 Chronicles 16:12-29
“Give unto the LORD the glory
due unto his name.”
THE WRITTEN WORDS AND TRUE WORSHIP
It is possible that the writings that were written on the stones of the altar were the Ten Commandments and some key verses in the Law. These served as a reminder to Israel that they were serving the true God. Also, they were to always obey what He had commanded them.
The command to write is an eternal testimony that the words of God are the truth and they never change. This also supports the fact of Mosaic authorship of the whole Pentateuch. It took careful copying by the scribes to transmit those writings from generation to generation. God used this as a means of preserving His Word. Regardless of the method used in the transmission of the written words, God promised to preserve His words for ever. They were written in stone at the time of Moses, and they are still available today. The writings that Israel was commanded to write were the first copies of the Law as they had to reproduce what Moses had written.
Those inscriptions also informed Israel that their altar was dedicated to the worship of the true God, and thus they could not touch the idols of Canaan. They were commanded to destroy them. Worship was the first act that Israel was commanded to offer as they entered that new land. God had continued to feed them with manna up to the crossing of the Jordan River, then the bread from heaven ceased. There had to be a contrast between the altar and worship of Israel and that of the Canaanites. Those heathen nations offered sacrifices to demons and worshipped idols. These were an abomination to the Lord and Israel was commanded to destroy their idols and never to follow their manner of worship. The altar and the monument that they were going to set up in Jordan and in Mt Ebal were a testimony of the manner of their worship and their faith in God. God through Moses had identified the place of worship as they settled in Canaan. Moses, the priests and the Levites told them to take heed as they were God’s people.
THOUGHT: The sanctity of worship depends on God’s truth and the right exercise of it.
PRAYER: Father, may I offer Thee worship as Thou hast prescribed and that honours Thy name.