Don’t forget Adonai!!D’varim/Deuteronomy 8

Recently I was asked about Act’s 15 and how it “voided” the food laws and the laws of circumcision.While I was answering them and reflecting on it I realized that the entire purpose of the letter tothe Churches was so they would not place “ADDITIONAL” burdens on those who were coming tofaith in Messiah Yeshua. [Acts 15:21-28]Yet the question remained but what about the laws/mitzvot? Which brought me toD’varim/Deuteronomy Chapter 8.I want to share with you the importance of this portion of Torah. It is very important in severalways, one was mentioned last night by Ro’eh George, when he was praying and thanking G-d for thetrials, for the blessings, for the circumstances. He was thanking G-d for all things. Yet MissBonnie his wife lay in hospital with a fever and chest pains.Being humans we often choose to look at things differently. Such as when circumstances are not aswe would like them to be we “choose” to take a negative stance and are not very “THANKFUL” at all.We tend to blame the circumstance on all but ourselves. And the thought of thanking anyone muchless G-d for our situation is just absolutely out of the question.

Deu 8:1

"All the mitzvot I am giving you today you are to take care to obey, so that you will live,increase your numbers, enter and take possession of the land ADONAI swore about to your ancestors.

He tells us to “take care to obey” now granted He was talking to B’nei Yisra’el/Children of Yisra’el,but that was/is US, today. We are children of Avraham.

Deu 8:2 You are to remember everything of the way in which ADONAI led you these forty years in the desert, humbling and testing you in order to know what was in your heart - whether you would obey his mitzvot or not.

We are to remember “everything” Adonai taught us. Now for B’nei Yisra’el that meant what Hetaught them in their wanderings in the desert for 40 years. But for us it is what we are taughtafter coming out of the bondage of sin.

Deu 8:3 He humbled you, allowing you to become hungry, and then fed you with man, which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you understand that a person does not live on food alone but on everything that comes from the mouth of ADONAI.

There are times in our walks that we are allowed to hit rock bottom, when G-d allows us to “takecharge of our circumstances on our own”, He lets us mess up all by ourselves, as an example of whatour lives are WITHOUT Him.

Without His guidance and His hand in our lives, we are hungry, and unable to be filled, we are lostwith out direction and purpose, we thirst yet can get no satisfaction in our own works and deeds, asthey are empty and of no substance.

Deu 8:4 During these forty years the clothing you were wearing didn't grow old, and your feet didn't swell up.

The Children of Yisra’el needed no clothes, their feet did not ache or burn from their travels. Heprovided all their physical and spiritual needs. Just as He provids our physical and spiritual needswhen we let Him. When we step back and let Him be G-d, and we act as we should and act as Hispeople/children.

Deu 8:5 Think deeply about it: ADONAI was disciplining you, just as a man disciplines his child.

During those times when we are “on our own”, when Adonai lets us ‘rely’ on our own devices He isdisciplining us and teaching us, just as our physical parents did. He let’s us dig ourselves a hole so tospeak, but He always has a way out. A solution to the “problem” or “circumstance”. Some times it isis in the form of assistance from others, some times HE provides what is needed ON TIME. ButONLY after we realize where we should be looking.[

1Co 10:12 Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall! 1Co 10:13 No temptation has seized you beyond what people normally experience, and God can be trusted not to allow you to be tempted beyond what you can bear. On the contrary, along with the temptation he will also provide the way out, so that you will be able to endure.

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Deu 8:6 So obey the mitzvot of ADONAI your God, living as he directs and fearing him.Deu 8:7 For ADONAI your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs and water welling up from the depths in valleys and on hillsides.Deu 8:8 It is a land of wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; Deu 8:9 a land where you will eat food in abundance and lack nothing in it; a land where the stones contain iron and the hills can be mined for copper.

When we follow the leading of Adonai, He truly bring’s us into the place where He wants us. Whenwe follow His Mitzvot/laws and live as HE directs our circumstances are much more manageable.This is not to say HE is going to do everything for us. But if we are obedient, the solution to theproblems are provided and at hand, He has provided the solution, and the ability to find and utilizethe solution, and not have to rely on our own devices.The solutions are there, the abilities are there and the increases are there. G-d breathed and allthat we have and see belong to HIM, they were created by HIM. What we accomplish would notand could not have been done with out HIM.

Deu 8:10 So you will eat and be satisfied, and you will bless ADONAI your God for the good land he has given you.Deu 8:11 "Be careful not to forget ADONAI your God by not obeying his mitzvot, rulings and