Series 2- MY FAVORITE (O.T.) CHAPTER
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER EIGHT
(Please read this chapter in its entirety)
No matter where I am reading in my devotionals, from time to time I set it aside to read certain chapters. Deuteronomy chapter eight is one of them; it’s my favorite of all the nine hundred and twenty-nine Old Testament chapters. Any of my four adult children can vouch it was read every Thanksgiving Day, before our meal when they were still at home.
This chapter is part of Moses’ farewell address to the people of God. It’s a history lesson on how God had led them from their inception to their present state. He exhorts them not to forget God in their times of prosperity. This was accomplished by remembering what God had brought them from. It's a “forget-me-not,” chapter.
The Bible frequently uses repetition. We need constantly to be reminded; we are so prone to forget; we have short memories. I have always been impressed with Psa. 106:13, “They soon forgat His works.” This was after miracle upon miracle. We are told in verse 7, “They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies.” And verse 21, “They forgat God their saviour.”
I close with applying Simon Peter’s words to his readers to my own.
“Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.” (2 Pet. 12-15)
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