Last week I started two blogs both a religious one and a secular one. The religious one is to get closer to the healing scriptures to make them a part of myself. Today’s passage is Deuteronomy 28:1-14 That way I will be able to receive my healing better. Face it the modern church needs to get in touch with the past so I will be referring to Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary to get more insight. All scriptures come from the New King James Version.
Deuteronomy 28:1“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
Diligently DILIGENTLY, adv. With steady application and care; with industry or assiduity; not carelessly; not negligently. Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God. Deu 6. (Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)
I wonder if I obey God’s voice as diligently or carefully as I really should.
2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
This passage was part of our wedding ceremony. When we were first married I was strong in the Lord, however as we were getting adjusted to our lives together and we both had to find our places in God’s plan.
3“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
4“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
5“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
All of these blessings are as good for a new married couple as they were for a chosen people. God has definitely things he wants each of us to do and he will do his part to make that possible for each of us.
7“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
I’d like to think we have no enemies, but little or big there are people and events in each or our lives that upset our basic calm. The passage speaks of the enemies, whatever they are as fleeing from us. My biggest enemy right now is my recently is my MS, indeed that is why I am working with the healing scriptures in this series of blog entries.
8“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Can you imagine God blessing your property and everything you do. Remember God blessed Joseph that way.
9“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 11And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
We need to keep the commands of the Lord and walk in his ways, and we will be called “Christian” and the Lord will bless us like he did in verse 8.
12The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
Assuming that God’s promises will come true. We can receive, be lending and no longer have to borrow.
13And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. 14So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
I am trying to heed the commandments and not turn aside from anything God has promised.
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