[Songs in the Night - March 24]
The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it....Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes. Deuteronomy 8:7-11
WHAT an exhortation!
What an incentive to faithfulness!
Who would not worship and serve such a
God!
And what a wonderful application can spiritual
Israel make of this scripture!
How marvelously has
our God led us, his covenant people, through the wilderness
of this world, and provided for our needs day
by day!
How the chastenings of his loving hand have
kept our feet from wandering; or if we have turned at
any time to the right hand, or to the left, how has his
love drawn us back!
And has he not brought us into
a good land, a land of brooks of water, a land of fountains
and depths, a land of oil olive and honey, a land
wherein we eat bread, the Bread of Heaven, without
scarceness?
Truly, we have not lacked anything
in it.
If Israel of old had reason to prove their
gratitude and love to God, how much more reason have
we, spiritual Israel! Z'14-263 R5527:6 (Hymn 181)