BLESSINGS

Deuteronomy 28:1-6 (New Living Translation)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.

Blessings for Obedience

“If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. 2 You will experience all these blessings if you obey the LORD your God:

3 Your towns and your fields will be blessed.
4 Your children and your crops will be blessed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed.
5 Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed.
6 Wherever you go and whatever you do, you will be blessed.

As Paul exhorted Timothy in yesterday’s devotion, today we hear Moses exhorting the nation of Israel to obedience to God’s commandments. Blessings are the product of obedience.

As God is no respecter of persons, any nation would benefit from this exhortation. And any nation, any people, any person who is not being blessed in this fashion can trace their shortcoming to a lack of obedience to God’s Word … to sin. “All have sin and come short of the glory of God … Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” I can only imagine how much more our blessings could be…