Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods….Deut. 11:16   In this chapter God warns Israelites through Moses, as they are about to enter the promised land. He reminds them of God’s miracles in bringing them out of Egypt: how He spoiled the Pharaoh and all of his land, how He destroyed the…

Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:3   Isaiah 12 is a hymn praising God for his faithfulness in keeping his promises, specifically the promise of salvation. God is our source of living water which forever quenches spiritual thirst. The prophet said we could freely draw this water from God’s “wells of salvation” In this…

….seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1   In Colossians 3, Paul reveals the powerful truth of union with the resurrected Savior (“we have been raised with Christ”) leading to a resurrected lifestyle and raised patterns of thought. It teaches us that we should be seeking and setting our minds on…