“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. 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. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.” – Deuteronomy 8:1-5
This particular chapter in Deuteronomy is so rich in truth, theology and thought that I cannot contain what I’ve learned from this chapter in one single go. I plan on spreading this thought out over the next few weeks, so I hope you’ll enjoy this series.
I am in the thick of the Old Testament right now, having just finished Joshua and beginning my voyage through Judges. One of the things that impresses me so much about the Bible is that, even though the story itself is constant, how you respond to it changes throughout your life. Different stages of your life reveal different facets of the Scriptural stories that you had not noticed before.
One of the things that I’m noticing now is how much God entreats His people to remember what He’s done for them. The word “remember” clangs through the pages of the Old Testament, a continuous bell pealing through the ages and generations of Israelites.
The passage in Deuteronomy 8 is just one of many times that God tells the Israelites to recall what He’s done for them and how He’s taken care of them. This chapter focuses on the miracle after the Exodus, the amazing deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians: their survival through forty years of desert wandering.
God commands the Israelites at a national level to not forget what He did for their nation and how He took care of them by feeding them and ensuring that not even their clothes wore out or their feet swelled from all the walking.
Why would He do this? Because He knew that people would forget, especially as older generations gave way to newer generations that were not around for the original miracle. Parents now had the responsibility to teach their children the truth about God. The responsibility didn’t just lie on the parents, however. The nation also now had the responsibility to teach its citizens about God and the way He helped found it.
It’s a profound thought to consider that the responsibility for sharing, remembering and telling about God doesn’t just lie at the personal level, but the national level as well.
– Matt
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Don’t Forget (Nationally), Pt. I
June 6, 2013
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“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. 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. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.” – Deuteronomy 8:1-5
This particular chapter in Deuteronomy is so rich in truth, theology and thought that I cannot contain what I’ve learned from this chapter in one single go. I plan on spreading this thought out over the next few weeks, so I hope you’ll enjoy this series.
I am in the thick of the Old Testament right now, having just finished Joshua and beginning my voyage through Judges. One of the things that impresses me so much about the Bible is that, even though the story itself is constant, how you respond to it changes throughout your life. Different stages of your life reveal different facets of the Scriptural stories that you had not noticed before.
One of the things that I’m noticing now is how much God entreats His people to remember what He’s done for them. The word “remember” clangs through the pages of the Old Testament, a continuous bell pealing through the ages and generations of Israelites.
The passage in Deuteronomy 8 is just one of many times that God tells the Israelites to recall what He’s done for them and how He’s taken care of them. This chapter focuses on the miracle after the Exodus, the amazing deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians: their survival through forty years of desert wandering.
God commands the Israelites at a national level to not forget what He did for their nation and how He took care of them by feeding them and ensuring that not even their clothes wore out or their feet swelled from all the walking.
Why would He do this? Because He knew that people would forget, especially as older generations gave way to newer generations that were not around for the original miracle. Parents now had the responsibility to teach their children the truth about God. The responsibility didn’t just lie on the parents, however. The nation also now had the responsibility to teach its citizens about God and the way He helped found it.
It’s a profound thought to consider that the responsibility for sharing, remembering and telling about God doesn’t just lie at the personal level, but the national level as well.
– Matt
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