“When you have eaten and are
satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be
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. Otherwise,
when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and
when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all
you have is multiplied, then 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.”
It is very important that we never
forget how God has blessed us. If we are not careful to remember all of the
gifts He has given us, we easily fall prey to the trap of thinking we can
accomplish things without God. We cannot do anything without Him, and when we
try to take the credit for the amazing things He has done in our lives, when we
fool ourselves into thinking we can do it all on our own, we forget the Lord
and His commands. We become prideful as we think of all of the things God has
done through us, forgetting that it was not through our own power that we
accomplished them. We forget His grace and love that saved us from our sins
that would condemn us to death.
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