First Reading
Deuteronomy 7:6-11
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
6Because you art a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
7Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined to you, and has chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:
8But because the Lord has loved you, and has kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and has brought you out with a strong hand, and rescued you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.
9And you shall know that the Lord your God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commands, to a thousand generations:
10And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
11,11 Keep therefore the instructions and ceremonies and judgments, which I command you this day to do.