Deuteronomy 11:8-9 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, (The Lord calls us again and again to obey, to keep, to guard, to preserve His commands, so that we faithfully attend to His ways. He doesn't give us the option. It is a command.) so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, (He does not just require us to obey Him out of an excessively authoritarian, demanding, and controlling attitude,
but He makes this demand of us for our benefit. When we obey His commands, we are strengthened in Him. He empowers us to go into uncharted territory. He equips and prepares us to possess our inheritance
which is the meaning behind the phrase take over the land. As we fully commit to Him, He provides a rich inheritance for us in Him and in the path in which He leads us and actually imparts to us the strength to carry out that design and to receive that great inheritance reward.) and so that you may live long in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. (In His great love for us, the Lord offers us still another benefit from obeying Him. He says obedience to Him will produce an abundant life, a life of productivity and influence. He tells us today that He leads us to a place in the land of our lives where we engage in the work of our hands in the midst of the plenty of His provision and rich blessing. His spiritual and physical resources are unlimited and flow to us through His inexhaustible river current of abundance.)
