You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty Hand and outstretched Arm, with which the Lord your God brought you out. (God's people faced a new land the Lord had promised them as their new home, but what they saw before them terrified and overwhelmed them because they were assessing the situation through their own abilities, much the same as we do when we face difficult situations. But the Lord reminds them and us to stop and remember, to recall what the Lord has earlier accomplished when they and we were living in impossible situations. The Lord has set up a faith account for us in our memories of His great wonders, and He reminds us to take stock of the many bank deposits of His deliverance and victory that He has performed on our behalf and that are already credited to our faith account.) The Lord your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. (The Lord not only had earlier delivered His people from the bondage of slavery and the powerful Egyptian empire, but He also had given them victory over Pharaoh and His mighty army. Now, He says He will perform the same kind of wonders as they confront and drive out the people in the Land of Promise. What an encouragement the Lord is giving us today, that we don't have to fear what lies before us. He reminds us today that His Arm is still outstretched to us, that He extends His mighty Hand to us to help us fight against the forces of darkness that inhabit the land to which the Lord has led us, to drive them out of our lives, and to gain victory over them.)
