Deuteronomy 7 (Message)
7-10 God wasn’t attracted to you and didn’t choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors. God stepped in and mightily bought you back out of that world of slavery, freed you from the iron grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know this: God, your God, is God indeed, a God you can depend upon. He keeps his covenant of loyal love with those who love him and observe his commandments for a thousand generations. But he also pays back those who hate him, pays them the wages of death; he isn’t slow to pay them off—those who hate him, he pays right on time.
11 So keep the command and the rules and regulations that I command you today. Do them.
12-13 And this is what will happen: When you, on your part, will obey these directives, keeping and following them, God, on his part, will keep the covenant of loyal love that he made with your ancestors:
He will love you,
he will bless you,
he will increase you.
he will bless you,
he will increase you.
It may be hard to understand and really grasp the love that God has for us. His love doesn't rely on how good we are or how important we may think we are. God's love is an Agape love. A love that is genuine and not circumstancial. In this passage, it is talking about God delivering the children of Isreal out of bondage however, it applies to us today. There is an Egypt that God has delivered you out of. Your Egypt may have been drugs, lust or even over eating. You know what your Egypt was.Whatever it was God delivered you.
Now what God is requiring of you is that you keep His commandments. God is a God that you can depend on. He keeps His covenant with you. This is all a part of His great love for you. When you plant the seed of obedience to God's laws and principles you reap a harvest of God's blessings upon you and your future generations.When you neglect to obey God's commands there is a penalty to pay. God is a just God.
God loves you. He will bless you. God will send increase to your household. If you obey His directives, commandments and statues. Live God's way and be blessed by the ever loving hands of the Almighty.
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