Deuteronomy 26:18-19
And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”
Tag: God Promotes
In this section of Deuteronomy we are reading the “blessings” and the “curses.” Moses is providing the new generation, about to enter the promise land, that if they obey God they will have blessings from God; but if they disobey God’s Word, God will bring curses upon them. Like believers today, the nation of Israel allows themselves to believe that their success and/or failure, was in their control. They believed their success was due to their own strength and skill sets. Like today’s modern business world, they believed it was their “capacity” that brought about promotion. Yet, in the above passage God shows them that the reason for their success, honor and fame, was because they were chosen by God and He, alone, enabled them to receive honor(s). Believers are the “treasure” of God. God so loves us that He calls us His “treasured possession.” We are the “apple of His eye.”
Zechariah 2:8
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Deuteronomy 32:10 (In speaking about Jacob, whose name was changed to, Israel):
“He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
God has us in the center of His eye. He will not let harm come to us and will not allow others to hurt us. God will promote us and give us honor and fame. These blessings, however, are tied directly to our faith in and obedience to God’s Word. As we walk in faith and obedience to the “known” will of God (what He tells us to do and promises to trust), we can be sure we will have blessings in our life, or that God will, in the hardships, protect us.
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