Deut 8-10 The Mighty Hand We Don't See

March 2nd, Deuteronomy 8-10

       There is a totality to life that is really incomprehensible. A couple of years ago I was at my wife's grandma's 100 year birthday party. One of the relatives had a chance to speak and said something to the effect of..."it's hard to measure all the benefit of the Christian heritage we have in our family." Heritage has some weight behind it that, like a wave of the ocean, pushes things forward when we don't have a sense of how things are moving forward.
       So my thoughts aren't really about heritage, rather this unseen wave that we are blessed by but can't really see. In the verses for today I see how God is making things happen for his people that is most likely missed by them. "Your clothing did not rot and your feet did not swell." I'm going to give you a land filled with vines you did not plant, olive groves not maintained by you, cities built by others. Your going to eat and be full, build and live in good houses, have your flocks multipy as well as your gold and silver.
       God led you through a desert filled with snakes and scorpions. Provided water for two million people and double the number of animals in a desert. Gave you food to eat. Will be a consuming fire as you enter the land and disposses people who are more powerful than you, living in cities fortified to the heavens.
       A familiar invitation is offered all throughout. An invitation away from pride and into thankfulness. This food, this support, this wealth, this multiplication is from the hand of your Father. This wave you are riding can feel like it's generated by your greatness...but it's generated by the hand of God. It is hard to calculate the measure of the benefit of walking with God. The benefit is greater than we will ever realize and should be cause for us to enter into a great time of worship tomorrow morning. To celebrate this God and his blessing we know and realize there is more we don't.