1. Not to destroy but to restore you to the Lord (1-11)

Despite the stiff-neck Israelites, God heard Moses' prayer. God wrote the Ten Commandments again to be put in the Ark. Eleazar succeeded Aaron as a priest. The Levites carried the ark. The Lord became their inheritance again. God's will was to restore them. God commissioned them to take possession of the Promised Land. Praise God who sent Jesus to restore sinners to be royal priests and a holy nation and inherit the kingdom of God.

2. Circumcise your heart and serve the Lord (12-22)

To the Lord God belong the heavens and the earth. Yet he loved Israel above all the nations. He prospered them from seventy until they became as numerous as the stars in the sky. Now they should circumcise their hearts, love God with all their hearts, and love their neighbors (the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows) as themselves.


Application: Lord, thank you for restoring me to you through Jesus. Circumcise my heart to love you with all my heart and my neighbors as myself.
One Word: God restores.