Position is a Blessing from God - Deuteronomy 26-28

 Deuteronomy 28:43-44 (ESV Strong's)

43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Position is a Blessing from God

The above passage is taken from chapter 28 of Deuteronomy.   Chapter 28 is a very important text to the nation of Israel and to us, as partakes of the New Covenant.   When God makes a covenant with someone it is a contract.  It is based upon what God says He will do and on what we are supposed to do to make complete the agreement of the covenant.  We should think of covenants as contracts, where each party has an obligation to the contract. God has always had a overarching covenant of “works” for man.  When Adam was put in the garden he was told to care for it and NOT eat of the fruit from a certain tree.  The covenant was that if he did this, God would continue to care for him and bless him.  He broke that covenant.  God has made many covenants with man. They are almost all based upon a “do this and this will happen” relationship.  The above text is that type covenant.  But, the above text is saying what will happen if the nation of Israel DOES NOT keep its end of the covenant.  Chapter 28 is the “blessings” if you keep the covenant and the “cursing” if you don’t.  Israel will NOT keep the covenant (they never kept one) and therefore they suffered the curses.  The above curse is that God will set others over them.  The key thought is that God sets positions.  If we have a “position” in life, it is because God gave it to us.   God controls all positions and postures of life.  Scripture states He makes the rich and the poor (Proverbs 22:2).  God sets up rulers and followers (Daniel 2:21).   In the New Covenant, God does all the work.  He writes his laws on our hearts and minds and then, through His Spirit, completes them in our lives (this is the Gospel).  Read Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36 or Hebrews 8:10-12 to see these truths.  The key here is to know that God is sovereign over all our deeds and actions.  We don’t promote ourselves.  It is God who establishes positions.