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CURSES COME OUT OF DISOBEDIENCE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Deuteronomy 28:15

Hebrews 2:1-3

 

“How shall we escape, if we

neglect so great salvation?”

 

CURSES COME OUT OF DISOBEDIENCE
 
The consequences of disobedience are the opposite of blessings. It is a curse as stated in this longest chapter of the book. The curses occupy fifty-four verses over against fourteen on blessings. The pronouncement of Moses was prophetic because every curse he mentioned came to pass in the subsequent history of Israel. This is so because people easily disobey God and sin brings misery to many. The curses came with devastating punishments and led to a very sad time for a people so favoured by the Lord. The pronouncements of these curses are also instructive and worthy of attention. When there is obedience, then there will be blessing.
 
All curses will overtake them and come with great destruction. Moses opened with an express assertion of what would follow. He said, “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee” (Deut 28:15). He pronounced a long catalogue of curses that would follow when Israel failed to follow the commandments of the Lord.
 
A curse is defined in these words: “This word as noun and verb renders different Hebrew words, some of them being more or less synonymous, differing only in degree of strength. It is often used in contrast with “bless” or “blessing” (Deut 11:29). When a curse is pronounced against any person, we are not to understand this as a mere wish, however violent, that disaster should overtake the person in question, any more than we are to understand that a corresponding ‘blessing’ conveys simply a wish that prosperity should be the lot of the person on whom the blessing is invoked. A curse was considered to possess an inherent power of carrying itself into effect” (ISBE).
 
Choose blessing, not a curse.
 
THOUGHT: God is true to His word, and a curse will come to pass.

PRAYER: Father, may I choose the path of life, not death.

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