Rain
Deuteronomy 11:13
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today-to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul-
This is a reaffirmation of the theme of this chapter, begun in the first verse. It relates as well to the previous paragraph, in which is a very interesting description of the new land, Israel. It was not like Egypt, where they planted seeds and watered on foot "as in a vegetable garden." No, Israel would be a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. Isn't that a lovely cool description? Even better, it would be a land God cares for and watches continually.
Then comes verse 13. So...with this wonderful prospect before us, the wild, beautiful land that is God's special property, love and serve Yahweh with all of my heart and soul.
Verse 14 continues, then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
This is quite a promise, most appropriate for Texas. The promise is rain! The promise is abundance of the necessities, food and wine.
My part is to love and serve with all my heart.
So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today-to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul-
This is a reaffirmation of the theme of this chapter, begun in the first verse. It relates as well to the previous paragraph, in which is a very interesting description of the new land, Israel. It was not like Egypt, where they planted seeds and watered on foot "as in a vegetable garden." No, Israel would be a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. Isn't that a lovely cool description? Even better, it would be a land God cares for and watches continually.
Then comes verse 13. So...with this wonderful prospect before us, the wild, beautiful land that is God's special property, love and serve Yahweh with all of my heart and soul.
Verse 14 continues, then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
This is quite a promise, most appropriate for Texas. The promise is rain! The promise is abundance of the necessities, food and wine.
My part is to love and serve with all my heart.
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