“All the commandments that I am
commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live
and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to
give to your forefathers.
You shall remember all the way which
the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years,
that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
He humbled you and let you be
hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your
fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not
live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of
the mouth of the Lord.” - Deuteronomy 8:1-3
He is more than
just some master giving orders. Everything He does has a divine
purpose, and His desire is to get man involved in His great purposes.
When I consider that the One who holds the whole universe in His
hands is interested in getting me intimately involved with the events
in that great universe, it's humbling. It is also beyond humbling to
realize that I truly can't live by bread alone because everything I
have and everything I am, I owe to Him.
Just because I've been writing about
strength in scripture doesn't mean I have it all figured out all the
time. If anything, I need these kinds of reminders daily, which is
why I decided to write them in the first place. We have a God who
brings us through the wilderness and teaches us along the way, and
that's something to celebrate.
