The Pilgrim Path---Deuteronomy 33: 1 

“This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.”

Deuteronomy 33: 1—29 reflects the heart of God revealed throughout the Scriptures from the beginning to end: The God of the Scriptures is a God of blessing. It is simply and profoundly true that, “There is none like God” (v. 26), and so there are none like the people of God: “Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD?” (v. 29) Dr. Mark D. Futato

Moses needs to help the people of God in this chapter of Deuteronomy. He is very soon to climb Mount Nebo. He will see, from a broad vantage point, the Promised Land. Moses is, “going on up” ---while the people are “going on in.” The people have had the encouragement of his presence and leadership for 40 years---now he is to die? What can he say? The Holy Spirit gives just the message:

“The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Deuteronomy 33: 27

---These arms are not always seen---but they are present

---These arms are not always felt---but they are genuinely caring for you

---These arms are not always sensed---but they will keep you from everlasting ruin

---These arms really do the heaviest lifting in your life

---These arms have “always” been---they belong to the ALMIGHTY

---These arms cradle you at night---you are not even aware

---These arms always defend---Nothing touches us apart from His Holy Purpose

---These arms show amazing Love---even when we have played the Prodigal (These arms always Welcome us back Home---Luke 15: 20)

---These arms will hold us in death---Why, they are stronger than Death itself (John 11: 25, 26; Revelation 1: 18)

“The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”

“…the Christian sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the covenant grace of an everlasting God will still encircle him. The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the reach of the “everlasting arms”---they are underneath him; and, while thus sustained, all Satan’s efforts to harm him avail nothing.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“I think I see more of Christ than I ever saw; and yet I see but little of what may be seen.” Samuel Rutherford

O could we make our doubts remove,

Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And see the Canaan that we love,

With unbeclouded eyes;

Could we but climb where Moses stood

And view the landscape over,

Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood,

Should fright us from the shore.

Isaac Watts, 1707

Grace and Peace in Jesus Christ Our Risen LORD, Pastor Jason