Monday: Hospitality
The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we examine the portrait of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Christian Life.
This week, we meditate on the theme of Hospitality throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
As the years passed since their rescue from captivity in Egypt, the Israelites were tempted to forget what God had done for them and begin mistreating outsiders. Those welcomed by the impartial and just God who loves the sojourner are called to emulate him.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Deuteronomy 10:12-19
12 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? 14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. 15 Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. 18 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. 19 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
Inspired by Luke 7:36-50
Father,
Thank you for being the one who forgives sins and cancels debt,
My sins are many, and my debt to you is great
I repent and receive your forgiveness
Help me today to live in light of this great forgiveness
Help me to love, forgive, and welcome others like Jesus, in whose name I pray,
Amen
