Tuesday May 23, 2006

Text for the Day -- Deuteronomy 11:1-5
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You shall love the Lord your God, therefore, and keep his charge, his
decrees, his ordinances, and his commandments always. Remember today
that it was not your children (who have not known or seen the
discipline of the Lord your God), but it is you who must acknowledge
his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, his signs
and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and
to all his land; what he did to the Egyptian army, to their horses
and chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as
they pursued you, so that the Lord has destroyed them to this day;
what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place.

Devotional
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Moses challenged the people to become story tellers. They were to
tell the story of God's great acts of deliverance and care to the
generations who were to follow. Those to whom God gives his love and
mercy have an obligation to tell the story of that love.That is how
the chosenness God has for all is communicated to those outside the
tradition.

Prayer
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Give me courage to share my story of your love, O Lord. Amen