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A Disciplined Faith

Deuteronomy 8:1-5  The Message

8 1-5 Keep and live out the entire commandment that I’m commanding you today so that you’ll live and prosper and enter and own the land that God promised to your ancestors. Remember every road that God led you on for those forty years in the wilderness, pushing you to your limits, testing you so that he would know what you were made of, whether you would keep his commandments or not. He put you through hard times. He made you go hungry. Then he fed you with manna, something neither you nor your parents knew anything about, so you would learn that men and women don’t live by bread only; we live by every word that comes from God’s mouth. Your clothes didn’t wear out and your feet didn’t blister those forty years. You learned deep in your heart that God disciplines you in the same ways a father disciplines his child.

For Reflection

"In the beginning was the word..." (John 1:1). God was known to the Jews only by the Word as sent by God's prophets. God was mysterious. God was unknowable except through the faith of those whom God chose to be God's people. God's word was always intended to show the world how to live. To become the most perfect human, one became obedient to that mysterious Word. God reinforced his Word with a love that protected, provided, encouraged obedience, and discouraged disobedience. God's will for a human existence of peace and equitable prosperity. God's people were free to choose obedience to the Word which would result in the perfection of humanity in the image of God.

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Pray about all things so that you grow into the grace God has intended for you.

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