3.131 Show Your Team Spirit

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

Whose team was Moses on anyway? I'm wondering if you've ever thought about which team Moses was playing for as we've gone through these first five books of Moses here at the beginning of the Old Testament. We transition into Moses' final book here with Deuteronomy.

We're reading according to Come Follow Me, Deuteronomy 6-8, 15, 18, 29-30, and 34. But that is so long to say. Can we just say we're studying the book of Deuteronomy this week?

I think so. I hope so. We take a look inside of Deuteronomy.

I hope you spend some time looking at the book of Deuteronomy itself, what it's trying to accomplish. This is basically Moses' last speeches, I guess, conference talks, whatever you want to call it, to the people of Israel before he passes away. We know that he does not get to enter into the land of milk and honey or the Promised Land.

And so now we're at a stage where he's going to say, 'Look, the Lord is about to let you in, but I have some counsel.' This basically would be like the 'King Benjamin talk', so to speak, out of the Book of Mosiah or other places where we see perhaps like Lehi gives his final thoughts and testimony to his children as recorded in the early books of Nephi there. So this is kind of what's happening. The Book of Deuteronomy is Moses' counsel and counsel from the Lord on how to be the Promised People of the Lord.

Now let's get to our verse for today and our thought for today. I'm excited for this week because there are so many power verses inside of Deuteronomy. It is heavily quoted inside of the New Testament.

And so I hope that you find your power verses and personal verses of flavor and of savor so that you can continue to have that light shine in your life as well. But I'll share some of my favorites throughout the week as we go here. Our verse for today is Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse 7.

And to set this up, verse 5 is a very, very well-known verse about loving the Lord with all your heart and soul and all your might, right? And it's one that even Christ quoted in his ministry. And then he continues here and says, 'This is how we should live that.' Verse 7 then, in reference to that command and the words that he's going to speak here, he says this: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

We have a way, as people, of showing whose team we're on. We do it through flags. We do it through banners.

We do it through clothing, our shirts, our hats, our pants. We do it through bracelets and anklets. We do it through all sorts of ways, bandanas, sunglasses.

We put them on our license plates on our car. We put stickers on the back windows of our car. We make an effort to show whose team we are on, who we're cheering for, who we want to win.

And I think that verse seven here is telling us, 'Hey, are you making sure that you're letting the world know that the Lord and his team is the one that you're cheering for?' Are you doing it with your children? Are you doing it with your neighbors? And when you walk down the street, do people know who you are?

So, my friends, as you go forward today, or as you go forward pondering upon this scripture, I want you to consider how you show your team spirit when it comes to the Lord. What does it look like? How do you let others know?

Is it just through your actions? Is it more explicit here as verse 7 tells us to teach them and to talk of them, not just to do it quietly, but to share it boldly. My friends, I hope at some point in the future that I can rest in peace and that those around me will know whose team I was on.

And they'll be able to say, 'You know that Allen guy, he certainly showed his team spirit when it came to Team Jesus Christ.' That's all for today, my friends. You and I have come here for such a time as this. Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We will be here tomorrow and we hope you are too.