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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Deuteronomy 3:1-17
When the enemy comes out to meet the people, the LORD begins by encouraging and reassuring Moses: "Fear him not" (v. 2). Then victory is achieved: "we smote him . . . we utterly destroyed them . . . we took possession . . . The cities which were walled up to heaven (Deuteronomy 1:28) had seemed impregnable to an unbelieving Israel. Moses now proclaims: "There was not one city too strong for us" (Deuteronomy 2:36). And what of the giants who had terrified them? God recalls much later: "Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and he was strong as the oaks" (Amos 2:9). Og, the king of Bashan, one of those terrible giants, was delivered, along with all his people, into the hands of Israel, just as Sihon was before him. God thus demonstrates His power and uses it to benefit His own people. An appropriate thought to encourage us whenever the power of the enemy threatens to terrify us! "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world," asserts the 1st epistle of John and "this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). It is triumphant because it rests on Him who is stronger than the world. "Be of good cheer," the Lord Jesus tells us, "I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).
