January 16, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 8 (NIV)
Do Not Forget the Lord
1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.……Continue Reading
How quickly we can forget God when things are good. When the bills are paid and there even seems to be some extra. When we are healthy and our family are all well. When we have a stable place to live and work. Sometimes we even think it is of our own doing that we are doing well but we must remember we are just stewards of what He entrusts to us. That isn’t just stuff, that if our gifts talents and abilities as well. We have because He gives and so in everything we do, everything we say, and everything we have it should be used to glorify Him. For 40 years they wandered without wearing out their shoes or clothes…that’s crazy! He provides everything but we must acknowledge that fact not just when we feel need but also when we feel secure..it is there because He provided it.
Kelly, I too considered 8:17, it is all of God that we possess, not of ourselves. So true!
There is a lot of remembering and forgetting in this chapter. Same ideas Paul shared in Philippians 3. Oh yes! Paul remembers his past, his heritage, upbringing, triumphs under the law, but in verses 7 and 8, he says that is all loss to him now, forgotten, put aside, that he might remember who he was in Christ. We ought to forget who we were as the old man, remember who we are as the new creature. HALLELUJAH! Jesus is risen indeed! Reb
Deuteronomy 8
He warns us to follow every command in order to increase and live. He reminds them of being led for 40 yrs in the wilderness. Trying to humble and trust what was in their hearts! Can you imagine shoes and clothes not wearing out for 40 years? God does disciplines us. If we forget the Lord he will destroy them.
Deuteronomy 8
Deuteronomy 8. Moses is reminding the Israelites of how far God has brought them and how much he has provided for them. To not forget where these blessings have come from, to not be prideful and think they accomplished it all themselves. He reminds them to Praise the Lord for all that they have and not to turn their backs on God by putting other gods or idols before God cause He will destroy them.
Deuteronomy 8
Deuteronomy 8
The people of Israel were reminded how the Lord had been with them all the 40 years in the wilderness. How He was always faithful to them. Then reminded after they would have plenty of food, cattle, etc. not to think that they did it themselves but give thanks always for what He has done. This is how we as Christians should live; being always thankful for what the Lord has done in our lives. During the hard times to keep our eyes upon Him remembering how He has always been faithful to us. And in the good times not to become proud in ourselves but still giving the Lord thanks. What are we without Him? We owe Him everything. Remember we are only passing through and will be with Him someday in Heaven. God bless brothers and sisters in the Lord.
DEUTERONOMY 8
God had shown the Israelites His care and His power in their journeys in the wilderness and His desire is they would be humbled to recognize Who He is and they had forsaken Him in not entering the promised land the last time. Here Moses instructs/reminds this new generation not to forget the Lord. He was bringing them to a good land, and yet it would tempting when they succeed to think that it was about themselves and not God. I think we all know that temptation, don’t we? But everything we have and are comes from Him and He continues to show Himself worthy to be trusted and obeyed. May we do that more and more!!!
Deuteronomy 8
”So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.“
Deuteronomy 8:3 NKJV