Covenant

Deuteronomy 29:5-9 – Yet the Lord says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet. You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.” When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them. We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

Deuteronomy 8:3 – 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.

Joshua 1:7 – “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

Exodus 19:5-6 – Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.”

Psalm 25:10 – All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.

Application:

• ·         Bread sustains but does not guarantee life, which is God’s gift to those who trust in and live by His word: His commands and promises. God’s discipline of His people by bringing them through the wilderness taught them this fundamental truth.
• ·         Success was not guaranteed unconditionally.
• ·         The covenant between God and Israel at Mount Sinai is the outgrowth and extension of the Lord’s covenant with Abraham and his descendants 600 years earlier.
• ·         “Ways of the Lord” are the Lord’s benevolent dealings with those who are true to His ways.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV