Thursday, November 27, 2008

Give Thanks to He Who Gives You the Ability

"Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the Lord promised on oath to your forefathers. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and revering him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land - a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and
your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God.

You may say to yourself, 'My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.' But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today."

Deuteronomy 8

2 comments:

MamaMidwife said...

WOW.

Thank you, Ted, for these videos. I'll have to upload them into a future post so everyone can see.

It's nice to know there's a "guy" reading my blog.

I, too, hope the Supreme Court will see what is so OBVIOUS to everyone else and do something to save our nation.

Thanks again.

Anonymous said...

Check out these two...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_7sXEt4zQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7KO2bUOb4k

~C