My dear Christian friends,
Do you have a personal relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in sincerity and in truth? If yes, what is He speaking to you today?
Two weeks before my first child was born, my wife who had been in hospital on bed rest for 10 weeks due to pre-term labor, was miraculously able to go home still pregnant. That day God spoke to the both of us through Deuteronomy 8, and I was humbled and rebuked by my Lord, even to this day.
As always, it is the Lord my God who is raising me, and He always keeps His Word and promises to me. All He want me to do is to trust Him and wait on Him because He never fails. I'm told to live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of my Lord, He showed me what was in my heart and whether I kept His Word during the entire time. I confess to you there were times I didn't trust God or my heart was away from my Lord trying to do things using my own understanding (which was/is ultimately worthless).
As I'm growing in the Lord with you, I realize that His Word such as "remember the LORD your God", "do not forget the LORD your God", and "keep the commandments of the LORD your God" are worthless in my life if they are simply for my intellect and acquiring knowledge -- His Word should bring transformation and change in behaviour within me when I observe and obey His Word.
When you have time, please meditate and observe on Deuteronomy 8, and allow Him to speak to you.
God bless,
David Cannon
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Deuteronomy 8 (New King James Version)
1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to
observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the
land of which the LORD swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember
that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 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. 4 Your garments did not wear out
on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know
in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God
chastens you.
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to
walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing
you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and
springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and
barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil
and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in
which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of
whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have eaten and are full,
then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has
given you.
11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His
commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you
today, 12 lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built
beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your
flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all
that you have is multiplied; 14 when your heart is lifted up, and you
forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage; 15 who led you through that great and
terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and
thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out
of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which
your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might
test you, to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart,
‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives
you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He
swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you
by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and
serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you
shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before
you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the
voice of the LORD your God.
