MAY YOU NEVER

READING: DEUTERONOMY 28:14-23

Verse 23: “And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.”

A sound that I would classify as frightening and totally despairing, is the loud and final clang of a closing prison door. This sound would fully convince me of the reality of my imprisonment. The clang would force my recognition of the hard and unyielding metal confining me. This verse describes in vivid detail the curses that result from disobedience. These consequences are like having bronze overhead and iron underfoot. Nothing is going to come in and nothing is going to go out from above or beneath. That warning conveys a hardness similar to the slam of the prison door, and it shouts “Isolation!” What is even worse, as described in this scripture, is that in a like manner, the disobedient are being harshly shut away from their God, Maker and Sustainer. That is being closed off from the One who counts most. It is wise to honor and obey the Lord that we will be open and accessible to Him and He to us. That’s a thought – about God’s Word

RESPONSE

1. Is there any degree to which you feel isolated from the love of God? If so, permit that to be a focus of sincere prayer.

2. Under what conditions are you most open to His love? How can those conditions be maximized?