If We Do This

“If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.” – Deuteronomy 28:1 Yesterday, I shared the covenant blessings found in Deuteronomy. And what do we see throughout the rest of the Old Testament? A story of faith and faithlessness — generations who believed the promises, and generations who didn’t. One generation takes God at His word: if they obey, they are blessed. Blessed with provision, with health, with children, with prosperity, with full barns — because they walked in obedience to the commands of the Lord. But then comes the next generation — the ones who inherited those covenant blessings without having to fight for them. They believe a little less. And the generation after that believes even less still. What one generation tolerates, the next generation