Devotionals

What's the Big Deal?

by PamFord Davis 
10/14/24
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I’d guess that most of us have mistakenly put a blouse or tee-shirt on wrong side out. Checking the location of product labels is helpful. Our carelessness might be embarrassing if someone discovers our foul up before we do.

A close friend from church has commented about her irritation when someone throws dirty clothes in the laundry without first checking to be sure all are right side out. Inside, outside…what’s the big deal?

It is a big deal.

We're dead wrong if we think lasting life changes can be accomplished by altering outside appearances. The Lord achieves our transformation only from the inside out. God brings His children out of the bondage to sin and into eternal life.

Before the LORD brought His people into Canaan, He brought them out of Egypt.

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the provisions and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’ then you shall say to your son, ‘We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Moreover, the Lord provided great and terrible signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household; He brought us out of there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’ So the Lord commanded us to follow all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our own good always and for our survival, as it is today. And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to follow all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us (Deuteronomy 6:20-25 NASB).”