Don't Forget God

Deuteronomy 8:10–18 (NASB 2020)

When you have eaten and are satisfied, you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.

“Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments, His ordinances, and His statutes which I am commanding you today; otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live in them, and when your herds and your flocks increase, and your silver and gold increase, and everything that you have increases, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; He who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions, and its thirsty ground where there was no water; He who brought water for you out of the rock of flint. In the wilderness it was He who fed you manna which your fathers did not know, in order to humble you and in order to put you to the test, to do good for you in the end. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.’ But you are to remember the Lord your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, in order to confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

When we are blessed, we need to remember who gave us the blessings in the first place. We need to thank and praise God for all He has given us.

If we fail to do this, then we will tend to think it is our doing rather than His. We will become prideful and boastful.

PRAY

We may often forget to meditate upon the perfections of our Lord, but he never ceases to remember us.

Charles Spurgeon

Psalm 116:7–14 (NASB 2020)

Return to your rest, my soul,

For the Lord has dealt generously with you.

For You have rescued my soul from death,

My eyes from tears,

And my feet from stumbling.

I shall walk before the Lord

In the land of the living.

I believed when I said,

“I am greatly afflicted.”

I said in my alarm,

“All people are liars.”

What shall I repay to the Lord

For all His benefits to me?

I will lift up the cup of salvation,

And call upon the name of the Lord.

I will pay my vows to the Lord;

May it be in the presence of all His people!