The Goodness of God to His People (Deut. 32:5-14)

7/18/2009 9:23 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time                    Focus:  The goodness of God to His people

 

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Deut. 32:5-14

 

            Message of the verses:  “5  "They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation. 6  "Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

    “7 ¶  "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you. 8  "When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel. 9  "For the LORD’S portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance. 10  "He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye. 11  "Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, That hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. 12  "The LORD alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him. 13  "He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He made him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock, 14  Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat— And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.”

            In this section I can see the goodness and faithfulness of God towards Israel and in turn Israel was unfaithful to God.  God is referred as Father in verse six, one of only six or seven times in the OT depending on which translation is read.

            Verse ten is a reference to God calling Israel the apple of His eye which is seen a number of times in the OT.  The word is translated as pupil in verse ten which comes from a Latin word that means apple, but the Hebrew word actually means “little man” as when one looks intently at another persons eye and sees his reflection in their eye and what they see is a little person, thus this is what the Hebrew word means.

            Verses thirteen and fourteen speak of the goodness that God has given Israel in the land of Canaan, things like honey, wine, and wheat.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  One of the main points of this section of Scripture is the goodness of God to His people and yet His people do not treat Him with the awe and respect that He deserves and when I look at this I wonder why I don’t always treat the Lord in this way, a way that brings honor and glory to Him for that is what pleases the Lord.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Love the Lord with all of my heart mind and soul.
2. Continue to learn contentment.
3. Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
4. Keep a short list with the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to search my heart for sin that I might confess them to the Lord.
5. Put on the spiritual armor:  The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of truth, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
6. Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.

 

7/18/2009 10:02 AM