Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, 12 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Deuteronomy 8:11-14 – Its interesting to me that God knows when we truly need to check our heart to see if we’re remembering Him. We’d likely say we need to make sure we are remembering Him in our hardships, yet the Lord says here our time of forgetting Him isn’t in the bad but the blessing. Moses tells the people that after they get into the Promised Land and they are enjoying the food, drink, houses, flocks, and wealth of the land that the drift will be to forget that it was God who provided all this for them and grow slack on their obedient walk after Him. God knew that when the giants came or the enemy’s walls were too high that they’d turn to obedience to Him, yet when life was easy it would be easy to forget about the Lord. Our story is no different. When the doctor says the words we don’t want to hear or we get fired, our posture often easily turns to the Lord, and often in deep ways. Yet when the blessings surround its easy to forget our need of God and that He was the One to make all this happen. Choose to dwell on the Lord and choose to obey His word both in the good times and the bad. Don’t let the blessings blind you to your need of God. Even in the joys of life God is still needed and needed to be followed. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3447
Question To Ponder: How have you seen the concept of the devotion to be true in your life?
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