Verse of the Day 3/24

Verse of the Day 3/24

 

Deuteronomy 8:11 "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,  New King James Version (NKJV)

 

Many times people will draw near to God while they are in the desert places, the rough patches in life only to drift and fall away from God when things go back to being normal.  Having sufficient food, income, and good health can lead us to be complacent and give us a false sense of security which can lead us to forgetting God.  That is the warning that Moses was giving the people of Israel back in Deuteronomy, shortly after entering the promised land.  Moses reminded the people how God had provided food, "manna" from heaven, clothing that did not wear out and even the metals to make utensils and implements while they were on their journey.

 

Drifting is an easy thing to do.  If you've ever been in a boat on a river or on a lake on a breezy day, you know the experience.  If you forget about the wind, forget about the current for any length of time you will find yourself far away from where you had been just a short time ago.  So it is in our faith.   "We must, therefore, pay even more attention to what we have heard, so that we will not drift away." Hebrews 2:1  Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

 

Read what the following verses say from The Message: "Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don't become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God."  I'd say that most of us live in what would be considered pleasant houses and seen our standard of living go up, some may have seen growth in their retirement accounts.  Today's verse is a reminder for us to remember and not forget just who it is that provided it for us and that we should be grateful to Him and to follow Him and not feel that we have become "self sufficient".

 

May you remember how God has provided for you, and may you live well in the days ahead of you (v.16 The Message)

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Deuteronomy 8:11

The Message (MSG)

^11-16 Make sure you don't forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don't become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God,

the God who delivered you from Egyptian slavery;
the God who led you through that huge and fearsome wilderness,
those desolate, arid badlands crawling with fiery snakes and scorpions;
the God who gave you water gushing from hard rock;
the God who gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never heard of, in order to give you a taste of the hard life, to test you so that you would be prepared to live well in the days ahead of you.