Today's Verse: Deuteronomy 8:18 (ESV)
You shall remember the Lord your God, for rit is he who gives you power to get wealth, sthat he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
r [Prov. 10:22; Hos. 2:8]
s ch. 7:8, 12
According to The Bible Reader's Companion, there is no such person as a self-made man. All that we have comes from God.
Today's Comment: The context of this verse is especially important. The Israelites spent forty years during the exodus learning that God could and would provide for their needs. Part of their arrangement with God was the sacrifice, in which they gave back to God a tenth of what was His.
When we put our offering into the plate at church, we often forget that what we are doing is giving back to God that which He has given to us. One of our offertory sentences goes like this, "All things come of thee, oh Lord, and of thine own have we given thee." Let us not forget this.
You shall remember the Lord your God, for rit is he who gives you power to get wealth, sthat he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
r [Prov. 10:22; Hos. 2:8]
s ch. 7:8, 12
According to The Bible Reader's Companion, there is no such person as a self-made man. All that we have comes from God.
Today's Comment: The context of this verse is especially important. The Israelites spent forty years during the exodus learning that God could and would provide for their needs. Part of their arrangement with God was the sacrifice, in which they gave back to God a tenth of what was His.
When we put our offering into the plate at church, we often forget that what we are doing is giving back to God that which He has given to us. One of our offertory sentences goes like this, "All things come of thee, oh Lord, and of thine own have we given thee." Let us not forget this.
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