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And it shall come about if you ever forget the Lord (YHWH) your God, and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.
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It is so important for us to continually remember the Lord and the great things He has done for us, as today’s Bible verse makes clear. It is an eternal life or death issue! Our daily lives need to be filled with the awareness of His love and His presence.

We know that from the time that God made Man in His own image He had given him dominion to rule over His great creation. Satan, the enemy of our souls, went into a jealous rage and has ever since schemed and worked to separate us from God. He did that by calling the truth of God’s word into question. He said to the woman there in the Garden, “Did God really say…” {Gen.3:1}

Satan, a liar by nature, would desire to make himself like the Most High God {Is.14:14} and he knew the power of God’s word—all creation gave witness to that! God said, and it was! One of the things that the Lord then said to that serpent of old who bragged and boasted of what he planned to do was, “Nevertheless, you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.” {Is.14:15} Satan and his minions were defeated and disarmed at the Cross! {Col.2:15} Now he just wants to take as many as possible with him! John Milton (1608–1674) wrote in his epic poem, ‘Paradise Lost’ that Satan said, ‘I would rather reign in Hell than serve in heaven.’ He was wrong of course and will reign over no one!

He has no power or authority. He cannot force anybody to do anything! Satan can only try to convince man to give what we have to him—he is a thief, but a very particular type of thief, he is a con-man armed only with lies. I am put in mind of Bernie Madoff. He was an American financier who stole tens of billions of dollars from individuals, companies and even some Christian ministries, not with a gun but with a lying tongue promising riches to them. He died in prison in 2021. We must remember that fact also and then submit to God and to resist the devil which will cause him to flee from us! {Jas.4:7}

We have been warned by the Lord Jesus Himself saying that we must beware of the deceitfulness of riches that choke the word, making it become unfruitful. {Mar.4:19} The U.S. dollar bill has inscribed on it ‘In God we trust’ but from what I have seen over the decades of ministry is that the money which carries the message IS the god that people are trusting in. And it will (perhaps very soon) fail!

As it was written so long ago, we have to recognize and remember who our Savior is, Jesus who gave all on that little hill of Golgotha that we might have all—the very expensive gift free to us.

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,” (Ephesians 1:18)

TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART