April Soap, now posted below archives

Name: Chad
Scripture: Deuteronomy 10-11; Psalm 43; Acts 24

10For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,[b] like a garden of vegetables. 11(O) But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12a land that the LORD your God cares for.(P) The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

OAP:
Egypt = You work the land to provide food
Promise land = God provides food

The contrast is praying to God for deliverance and actually trusting God to come through with it. When you are enslaved Egypt it is easy to cry out to God, but then things still have to get done. Here there is no longer a need to cry out for deliverance. The trust goes from "Why not it can't get much worse than this" surviving through their own power to a daily reliance from the beginning of the year to the end.
I like it.

God, I fail to see the current relevance. I read and understand but won't act differently because of it, at least not today.


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