Some other verses from Deuteronomy - by Don Neuendorf
While we're in this chapter I can't resist commenting on verses 10-12. "The land you are enteringn to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to the end."
In a few weeks, on June 8, Karen and I will celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Those verses were the sermon text we chose for our service...
We saw our wedding as an event like the crossing of the Jordan (or the Rubicon), a not-going-back kind of event, the beginning of a new life. And we would not be cared for by our parents who provided all we needed. We were entering a land in which we would depend on the sometimes unpredictable rain from heaven. But this land, marriage, was a land that our Father cares for and over which he would be watching.
There were times that we were pretty nervous - some times that we questioned where he was leading us and whether he would provide. But the rains came when they were needed. And, over 30 years, our Lord has never failed to provide. Not only meat and drink and house and home, etc. But the Lord has provided the love and mercy and forgiveness and strength that we needed, day by day.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!