Remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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 the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.

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.

Then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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 ancestors, as it is today.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

Remember the desert years. God is driving the nations out because of their wickedness,  not your righteousness.

Why?

Be careful to follow God's word, be careful do not to forget the Lord your God.

To teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 

Be careful to follow: When we are satisfied in our life it is easy to turn away from the Lord.

Remember the Lord your God who gives you the ability to produce wealth. No me, I am nothing without the Lord.

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紀念過去在曠野引導的經歷。所以要遵行神的話語。人活著不是靠食物，乃是靠神的話，神賜瑪哪。因為要照神的吩咐去揀瑪哪。透過瑪哪學習要聽神的話。由過去40年聽神的話，有好處。摩西勉勵以色列人要遵行神的話。人在生活舒適、豐富後反而忘記神的恩典，心高氣傲，容易離開神。

得財貨的力量是神給的。不要忘記耶和華是使我蒙福的神。我們活著是靠神的話。

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How?

Remember that it is the Lord who gives me the ability to produce wealth.