Keep Your Guard Up | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 16, 2022
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:08.5 | Our reading titled Keep Your Guard Up was written by Marvin Williams. |
| 0:14.4 | A man and several friends went through a ski resort gate, posted with avalanche warning signs, and started snowboarding. |
| 0:22.8 | On the second trip down, someone shouted, avalanche, but the man couldn't escape and |
| 0:29.1 | perished in the cascading snow. Some criticized him, calling him a novice. But he wasn't. He was an |
| 0:36.7 | avalanche certified backcountry guide. |
| 0:39.9 | One researcher said that skiers and snowboarders with the most avalanche training |
| 0:44.8 | are more likely to give into faulty reasoning. The snowboarder died because he was lulled into |
| 0:52.8 | letting his guard down. In the book of Deuteronomy, as Israel prepared to go |
| 0:58.2 | into the promised land, God wanted his people to keep their guard up, to be careful and alert. |
| 1:05.2 | So he commanded them to obey all his decrees and laws, and remember his past judgment on those who disobeyed. |
| 1:13.4 | They needed to be careful to examine themselves and keep watch over their inner lives. |
| 1:19.7 | This would help them keep their guard up against spiritual dangers from without and spiritual |
| 1:26.0 | apathy from within. It's easy for us to let our guard down |
| 1:30.5 | and fall into apathy and self-deception, but God can give us strength to avoid falling in life |
| 1:38.0 | and forgiveness by His grace when we do. By following him and resting in his wisdom and provision, we can keep |
| 1:48.4 | our guard up and make good decisions. |
| 1:57.1 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Deuteronomy chapter 4 verses 1 through 9. |
| 2:03.6 | Now Israel, hear the decrees and laws I'm about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord the God of your ancestors is giving you. |
| 2:16.6 | Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the God of your ancestors, is giving you. Do not add to what I command you, and do not subtract |
| 2:19.8 | from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. You saw with your own eyes what the |
| 2:26.6 | Lord did at Bale Pior. The Lord your God destroyed from among you, everyone who followed the Bail of |
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