Knowing Him Daily

08.March.2026

There is a passage in Deuteronomy 28 that most people either skip over or treat like a relic from another era. But if you will sit with it for just a moment, I think you will find it is more relevant to your life right now than you might expect.

“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God.” Deuteronomy 28:1-2, NKJV

Blessings that come upon you and overtake you is not passive language, that is pursuit. That is God moving in the direction of someone who is moving in the direction of Him. And yes, in this case it actually IS a formula. When we obey, He responds. That is not a maybe, but is a covenant promise straight from the mouth of God and it has never once failed.

Years ago a very dear friend of mine, someone I am no longer in touch with, shared a story with me that I have never forgotten. Two men were out hunting together. One significantly older than the other. They were moving through the woods the way you have to move when you are serious about the harvest, slow, deliberate, every step measured, every sound accounted for. Animals are methodical. They register every twig snap, every unnatural movement, every out of place noise. If you want the harvest, you move accordingly.

At some point the younger man leaned over and whispered, what is all that jingling? The older man reached into the pocket of his pants and pulled out a handful of coins. The younger man stared at him. He said, there are no vending machines on the side of this mountain. What are you doing with all of those? The older man shrugged. He genuinely did not know why he had them. Just habit, maybe. Just the comfort of having something familiar in his pocket.

Put them on a post and leave them, the younger man said quietly.

The older man hesitated. But that is my money. I will be leaving it behind.

And the younger man looked at him and whispered, do you want the coins or the harvest?

I have thought about that story more times than I can count. Because that is us. That is all of us. Moving toward everything God has promised, everything He has already prepared, and jingling the whole way there with a pocket full of things we refuse to set down. Not because they are valuable, but because they are familiar. Because letting go feels like losing even when what we are holding is costing us everything we came for.

Now before anyone says it, yes, we are no longer under the law. The finished work of the cross changed everything and we are not going back. But grace was never meant to lower the bar on holy living. It was never meant to be a reason to take obedience less seriously. If anything, living under the New Covenant with the Holy Spirit dwelling inside us should make us more responsive to God, not less. We do not obey to earn what He already gave us freely. We obey because we love Him and we are finally starting to understand what His love actually cost, and that is not obligation, that is response.

Active obedience means you are moving. Choosing. Every single day, in the private moments and the public ones, orienting your life toward Him and trusting that He is doing exactly what He promised. That is not earning, that is faith with legs.

You are not doing it alone. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, working in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. He is not standing at a distance waiting to see if you perform well enough. He is right there in the middle of your obedience, producing it, sustaining it, and faithfully keeping every promise He ever made.

So today the challenge is this, what “coins” are you carrying? What familiar, comfortable, harmless seeming thing is jingling in your pocket and costing you the harvest? You do not have to know why you picked it up. You just have to be willing to leave it on the post.

Do you want the coins or the harvest?

Before we close today I want to give you something tangible to do. Grab a piece of paper and a large black marker. In big bold letters write the word JESUS. Then underneath it, in small letters, write everything. Every sin. Every failure. Every coin you have been carrying. Every place you have fallen short. Every thing you are not proud of. Now take a red marker and draw one line straight through all of it. That red line is not an accident. That is the blood of Jesus covering everything you just wrote down. Every single word. That is what His obedience purchased for you. That is what you are responding to when you choose to walk in faithfulness. Not striving to earn it. Responding to what has already been done. Leave whatever you wrote under His blood. (Colossians 2:13-14, 1 John 1:7)

Father, show me what I am still carrying that You never asked me to carry. I don’t want the noise of my own habits and hesitations to cost me the harvest You prepared for me. I am putting it down. I am moving toward You with both hands open. I trust every promise You have made. In Jesus’ name, 

Amen.

The best is not behind you. It is in front of you, and it follows every step of faithful obedience you take toward Him.

Make today count and see you tomorrow.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​