After the Ten Commandments, Moses read every word of God’s law to the people. And they responded with one voice: “Everything the Lord has said we will do.” Then Moses immediately wrote it all down. Not because he had to. Because what God says is worth keeping. Today’s devotional is about receiving God’s word fully, not just the parts that are easy, and holding onto it long enough for it to stay.
Isaac came home to find that the Philistines had filled in every well his father had dug. They didn’t attack him — they just cut off his access to the source. He didn’t look for new wells. He re-dug the old ones — and the night he did, God appeared to him. Today’s devotional is for anyone who feels spiritually dry, not because God moved, but because the wells have slowly been filled in.
Jesus doesn’t say “you will be clean” or “you need to get clean.” He says already — past tense, done, before the disciples understood what was coming. The instrument of pruning isn’t pain alone. It’s the Word. There’s a difference between reading the Bible and letting the Bible read you. Which one are you doing?