WORDS TO LIVE BY - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2026

Our Daily Bread - Wednesday, May 12, 2016
by RBC Ministries

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WORDS TO LIVE BY

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Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
-Deuteronomy 4:5

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
2 Kings 15-16
John 3:1-18

For many years, I've maintained a file folder labeled "Speaking." It has become thick with articles, quotations, and illustrations that might be useful. Recently, I went through it to discard things that are out of date. I found it difficult to throw away many of the items, not because I haven't used them in a talk but because I haven't put them into practice. I closed the folder thinking, "These aren't the words to talk about; these are words to live by."
After 40 years in the desert, Moses addressed the people poised to enter the Promised Land: "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you" (Deuteronomy 4:1). Moses' repeated theme (vv.1,2,5,6,9) is that God's commandments are to be kept. He said it well, "Surely I have taught you statutes and judgmentsthat you should act according to them" (v.5).
It is easy to talk about doing more than we actually do and to speak about truth we're not living by. We can become bloated with words, yet starved for reality, forgetting that all of God's commands flow from His heart of love for us. - David McCasland
Help us, Lord, not to be just hearers of the Word; help us to be doers as well. Teach us to be honest with ourselves about who we really are. We want to walk in Your ways and to guide others to You.

The strength of our actions should match the strength of our words.

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