{"id":4393,"date":"2022-11-25T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2022-11-25T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:49:30","slug":"devotional-on-deuteronomy-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-deuteronomy-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Deuteronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-oAiJfn4pjHc\/XYFYV27v93I\/AAAAAAABBJc\/7qIidogGq2QbJUjRKwJH9UOyIIA0DWagACKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/P7289663.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Sweet Creek Hike &#8211; Mapleton, OR<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIt\u2019s a big deal<br \/>\nDeuteronomy 32: This is no small matter; it&#8217;s your life.<br \/>\nAfter the sermon comes a special in song.  No, really.  Moses finishes preaching and then teaches them a song that sums up all he&#8217;s said.  It\u2019s a song of God&#8217;s grace and faithfulness to them even in the face of disastrous failure on their part.  After the song Moses tells them to take the words of both his preaching and the song he has taught them to heart.  These aren\u2019t the ramblings of a very old man.  Rather, these concepts are life and death for them.  I\u2019m reminded today that most things in life are just &#8220;small matters.&#8221;  In spite of the fact that I try to make them into big deals the fact is that they don&#8217;t amount to a hill of beans in the long run.  However, there are big deals in life; things that last forever.  Such things matter even across the scope of history.  I must identify both the small and the big matters and deal with them accordingly.<br \/>\nTake Away: Treat big deals as big deals and little deals as little deals and don\u2019t mix up the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a big deal Deuteronomy 32: This is no small matter; it&#8217;s your life. After the sermon comes a special in song. No, really. Moses finishes preaching and then teaches them a song that sums up all he&#8217;s said. It\u2019s a song of God&#8217;s grace and faithfulness to them even in the face of disastrous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,7],"tags":[121,342,413,863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}