Know
Deuteronomy 8:5
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
This comes only a few verses after the last one, at the end of the same paragraph.
Israel, and we, are commanded to know in our hearts, deep in our secret thoughts. With "then" it is linked to the previous verses, which after verse 2 go on to name manna, the word of God, lasting clothes, and feet that don't swell as supernatural provisions of God for Israel.
God's care in the homeliest of needs suggests that anything he does beyond that has to be good. What God does to us is discipline, and He does it because we are dear as His children. He has plans for us in the future, and to fulfill those plans, we cannot be undisciplined, wild children.
Thank you, God!
Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
This comes only a few verses after the last one, at the end of the same paragraph.
Israel, and we, are commanded to know in our hearts, deep in our secret thoughts. With "then" it is linked to the previous verses, which after verse 2 go on to name manna, the word of God, lasting clothes, and feet that don't swell as supernatural provisions of God for Israel.
God's care in the homeliest of needs suggests that anything he does beyond that has to be good. What God does to us is discipline, and He does it because we are dear as His children. He has plans for us in the future, and to fulfill those plans, we cannot be undisciplined, wild children.
Thank you, God!
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