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Deuteronomy 8:3

Chapter 8

Do Not Forget the LORD

1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers.2Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

3He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

4Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.5Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

6Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him.7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills;8a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;9a 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.

10When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.11Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,13and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,14then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.15He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.16He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you.17You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”18But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.

19If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.20Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.

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Joann_Edwards

- (eBible Novice) 2 months ago.

When the Isralites were in the desert, God didn't just give them manna to feed them physically, He was trying to get them into a relationship of spiritual dependence, where the words that come from His mouth are what they lived on, depended on and fed on. The thing about manna is that it's best eaten when its FRESH. So like manna, reading the Bible on a daily basis is the FRESHEST way to absorb it, and grow closer into relationship with God.

Kofu - (eBible Mentor) 9 months ago.

Quoting this line, Jesus rebukes the devil in Matthew 4:4, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

Antoine1777 - (eBible Novice) about 1 year ago.

Something to remember about this holiday season is that we cannot go on thinking that we are entitled to the provision, but that it was a give of grace and mercy from God so that we might be able to walk with and in Him, rather that walk on Him.