Everything the Lord Has Said
Day 51 · Exodus 24:3-4
📖 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Exodus 24:3-4 (NIV)
“When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, ‘Everything the Lord has said we will do.’ Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said.”
Today’s John 15 thread: Jesus said in John 15: “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.” The key is not just hearing His words but letting them remain. The Israelites didn’t hear the commands and move on. They made a commitment to keep them, and Moses wrote them all down so nothing would be lost. Abiding means letting God’s words stay in you, not just passing through.
✍️ REFLECTION
After the Ten Commandments and all the laws God gave through Moses in Exodus 21-23, Moses comes back to the people and reads everything out. All of it. Every word, every law, every instruction God had given. And the people respond with one voice: “Everything the Lord has said we will do.”
That is a remarkable moment. Not “we will try” or “we will do most of it” or “we will think about it.” Everything. And they said it together, as one people, with one voice.
Q1: When you read God’s word, what is your honest response? Are there parts you receive fully and parts you quietly set aside? What would it look like to say “everything” with as much conviction as the Israelites did that day?
Then the next verse says Moses wrote it all down. He didn’t trust his memory. He didn’t assume everyone would remember from the reading. He wrote everything down so the words would remain. And because men and women throughout history took the same responsibility seriously, we have the written Word of God in our hands today. The Bible exists because people believed what God said was worth keeping.
Q2: Do you write down what God speaks to you? When He brings something to mind through Scripture, prayer, or a conversation, does it stay with you or does it fade by the end of the day? What would change if you started treating what God says to you as something worth recording?
Moses wrote everything down on the same day. Not later, not when he had time, immediately. There is something important in that. The longer we wait to write something down, the more likely we are to lose it. The word doesn’t just need to reach us. It needs to remain in us.
Q3: Is there a practice in your life that helps God’s word stay with you, whether journaling, memorising verses, or talking it through with someone? If not, what is one small step you could take this week to help His words remain?
🌿 REMAIN IN HIM
Take a moment before you move on. This isn’t a to-do. It’s an invitation to stay.
Reflect honestly: What has God been saying to you lately, through Scripture, through prayer, through what you have been going through? Have you written any of it down? Is there something He has spoken that you are in danger of forgetting?
Bring it to Jesus: Tell Him: “Lord, I don’t want Your words to just pass through me. I want them to remain. Help me to slow down enough to receive what You are saying, and to hold onto it.”
Trust the Gardener: The word of the Lord endures forever. What He has spoken to you is worth keeping. Write it down. Come back to it. Let it stay.
🙏 PRAYER
Father, Your word is worth more than I often treat it. I read it and move on. I hear it and forget. Help me to be like Moses, someone who receives what You say and writes it down, who takes You seriously enough to keep a record. And give me a heart like the people of Israel who heard everything and said with one voice: we will do it. All of it. Not just the easy parts. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
💡 MEMORY VERSE
1 Peter 1:25 (NIV): “but the word of the Lord endures forever.”
This post is part of the Abide in Him Daily devotional series, reading Scripture through the lens of John 15:1–17. The branch doesn’t manufacture the fruit. It bears it because it stays connected to the Vine.
