ISRAELIS ARE SPECIAL PEOPLE: Devotion for Saturday July 23, 2016

ISRAELIS ARE SPECIAL PEOPLE: Devotion for Saturday July 23, 2016

Text: Deuteronomy 33:26 – 29             

Memory verse: Deuteronomy 33:29 - Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help and the sword of your majesty! Your enemies shall submit to you, and you shall tread down their high places."

This song of Moses declares that God is the refuge of the people of Israel, their only true security. This is one reason he said that the Israelis are privileged and special. There is none like the God of Israel. Thus there are no people like the Israel of God. This also applies to the New Israel or the Spiritual Israel which we belong to. Here are some of the peculiarities of the people of Israel.

1. They were always well seated and sheltered. Those who make God their habitation shall have all the comforts and benefits of a habitation in Him (Psalm 91:1). This is the understanding of the Psalmist hence his words in Psalm 91. This understanding is very necessary in our Christian race as we contend with principalities and powers.

2. Never were people so well supported and borne up. God stoops to be with His people at any time. His everlasting arms are underneath them, to keep the spirit from sinking, from fainting, and their faith from failing. Divine grace is sufficient for them. Just as He was with them in their journey to the Promised Land so He is with them even now. Otherwise how can we describe the survival of the nation of Israel amidst the Arab world who desires to eliminate them?

3. They were well commanded. Thus believers are more than conquerors over their spiritual enemies, through Christ that loved them. This was demonstrated when they came to the Promised Land. God gave them instructions and they followed which resulted in the walls of Jericho falling down. 

4. The people were well secured and protected. Israel shall dwell in safety alone.

5. Never were people so well provided for; so helped, so well armed, so well assured of victory over their enemies.

Is there any other thing that can make us more special than these? Absolutely nothing! Are you among these special people?    

Food for Thought: What more makes someone so special than these five points mentioned above?

Prayer: May God help us to seek and to set our affections on Him alone; that we may have our lot with Israel of God, in the realms of love and eternal happiness, and not  Israel's foes in the regions of darkness and despair.