But remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms His covenant, which He swore to your ancestors, as it is today. Deuteronomy 8:18
The Children of Israel were rescued from slavery in Egypt followed by forty years in the desert where God was the sole provider of everything it took to stay alive. Moses equates this time and place as the creation of their identity, God’s covenant people, tested, humbled and true.
God’s covenant people are transitioning into a stationary, stable home in the promised land. They will be prosperous and live in peace. Moses warns there will be great temptation to forget the role God actively played in their history with a turning toward one’s own might. Failure to remember the past will mean self-reliance and misplaced worship in the future with catastrophic results.
Today, we work hard, we study hard, we make strategic plans with an end expectation of great success or improvement of our present life’s status. We feel entitled to the harvest of our toils and to a greater extent, the rest we rightfully earned. As for those earnings…… they are ours to dispense or store at our discretion. NOT!!!!!! All glory goes to God, not man.
We cannot share credit with God. Every choice we make expresses our priority to worship and adore man or God. These choices determine everything. Chose wisely.
Have a beautiful Monday,
Gretchen