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5 aYou should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.  
6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, ato walk in His ways and to fear Him.  
7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, aa land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;  
8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
10 aWhen you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land which He has given you.  
11 “Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,
12 alest—when you have eaten and are1 full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;  
13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are1 multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;  
14 awhen your heart is lifted up, and you bforget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;  
15 who aled you through that great and terrible wilderness, bin which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; cwho brought water for you out of the flinty rock;  
16 who fed you in the wilderness with amanna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, bto do you good in the end—  
17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, afor it is He who gives you power to get wealth, bthat He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  
19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, aI testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.  
20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, aso you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God. 
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Deuteronomy 8:6-7

Think of this in its metaphorical, spiritual intent. When God comes into our lives, He begins to bless us. He will bless us in ways that we have not been blessed before. The Israelites in this situation were not blessed with the liberties and the prosperity that true liberty could bring. Their blessings and prosperity were going to be physical, and thus, God is using physical examples of how blessings will come into their lives.

Now what about those that come into our lives? Sometimes the blessings will be physical to some of us, and perhaps prosperity will come, but the main thing that He wants with us is the relationship between us and Him. He is looking for it to grow and develop until we are blessed spiritually by becoming like Him, allowing Him to create Himself in us so that we reveal to Him and to others His characteristics in our lives. He is telling us that blessings like these will come.

John W. Ritenbaugh
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