Deuteronomy 8:6-9 Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to Him and revering Him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land— (The Lord's command for us to obey His ways is based in His desire to bless us. He doesn't demand obedience because He needs anything from us. He is completely self-sufficient. But He knows that His blessing is contingent upon our compliance to the parameters of His Kingdom principles. Rather than being oppressive and tyrannical, the Lord's ways lead us to freedom and release from bondage. Rather than being a harsh and cruel taskmaster, the Lord generously and lovingly invites us to walk according to the truth that He reveals about Himself and His Kingdom through His laws of mercy and grace. The root of the term that describes us "walking in obedience to Him" refers to a journey and implies distance. As we walk with Him, as we obey Him, as He matures us and grows us in His way, He leads us into a life-time journey to help us learn obedience to Him.) a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.
(That journey of obedience leads us into a new life, a new land of plenty, of provision, of abundance, where the Lord not only supplies the water of life gushing forth in us,
but also where He provides the bread of life to sustain us,
a place flowing with the milk and honey of His Word, of His salvation, of His freedom, of His deliverance.
As we walk in His ways, He causes this land, this life, to provide all the resources we need to follow Him. He imparts all that we need to complete the work of our hands to which He has called us, even the tools we need for that work.
Today, as we obey and walk with Him, the Lord withholds nothing from us.)
