I love Jeremiah 31:14. It says, “I will satiate the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord.” Our soul is our mind, will, and emotions. Does your soul. live in abundance?

What we think about affects every aspect of our lives. Isaiah 26:3 says, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in You.” Psalm 34:8 says, “Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!”

The fruit of the fear of the Lord is abundance. Verse 9 says, “Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” Verses 13-14 outlines for us what it means to fear the Lord.

Verse 12 is a good question to ask yourself. “Do I desire life?” I have a teen mentee that doesn’t want to live. She has no desire for life. What do you lack? Verse 10 says, “…those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.”

Moses left us with a great example of the quality of life. We will all live out the fashioned days the Lord recorded for us. Psalm 139:16. How will we live them? I really like the description of health in Job 21.

Verse 23-24 in the Amplified says, “One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; his pails are full of milk (his veins are filled with nourishment), and the marrow of his bones is fresh and moist.”

Psalm 63:5 says, “My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.” Joy is a high watermark of an authentic follower of Jesus ~ walking in the truth of God’s word.

I like to think of Psalm 65:9-11 as a description of a believer’s life. Verse 10 says, “You water its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth.”

Verse 10 blessing ~ may the Lord crown your year with His goodness, and cause your paths to drip with His abundance. John 10:10. 

It always makes me sad when I come to the end of Deuteronomy. The Lord allowed Moses to see the promised land, but he was forbidden to enter it. Even though the Lord told him how corrupt His people would become, Moses gave them a final blessing. 

He ended chapter 33 by reminding them Who the Lord is to them. Verse 27 says, “The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy!”

Deuteronomy 34:5-6 says that Moses, “…died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And He buried him…” Take note of verse 7. It says, “Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eyes were not dim nor his natural vigor diminished.”

This was my dad’s testimony. Psalm 92:14-15 says, “They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flourishing, to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” Are you bearing fruit?

We have a great visual of what it means to be hidden by the Lord. Moses asked to see God’s glory. Exodus 33:20 says that no man can see His face and live. Verse 21 says, “…Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.”

As God’s glory was to pass by, verse 22 says, “…I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand while I pass by.” Can you picture it? Moses was standing on the rock. The Lord picked him up and put him inside an opening in the rock.

I love David’s words. Bask in them for a moment. Psalm 18:1-2 says, “ will love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”

Strength. Rock. Fortress. Deliverer. Shield. Salvation. Stronghold. I encourage you to make them your words of affirmation. They describe who the Lord is at all times. He never changes.

“On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.” Great hymn penned by Edward Mote. 1834. Timeless words.

The Lord inaugurated Joshua. In Deuteronomy 31: 23 He said, “…Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you.”

Four times in Joshua 1 the Lord commanded Joshua to be strong and courageous. He assured him over and over that He would be with him. We can camp on those same words. The Lord is our Hiding Place. 

Proverbs 18:10 says, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” Colossians 3:3 says, “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” John 10:28 says, “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”

Psalm 91:1 says, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Run and hide in Him.

It was near the end of Moses’ life. He was to pass his leadership role onto Joshua. The Lord called them both to the tabernacle of meeting. He told Moses that after he died, that the people would forsake Him.

Deuteronomy 31:18 says, “And I will hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.” Imagine what might be going through Joshua’s heart as the upcoming leader.

The Lord gave Moses a song which he taught them as a witness against them. Deuteronomy 32:4 says, “He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.”

Almighty God, the One who led them in the wilderness is our God. Psalm 62:6-7 says, “He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.”

Meditating on Scripture is a great way to get His truth embedded in our hearts. The Strong’s definition for meditates means to reflect; to ponder; to contemplate something as one repeats the words.

In the Hebrew thought, to meditate upon the Scriptures is to quietly repeat them, while utterly abandoning outside distractions. Ah distractions: there is a lure that the enemy of our soul uses to pull us off course.

I love Psalm 119. It is all about His word. In June of 2023 I meditated through the whole psalm. It was a delightful and refreshing experience. Verse 15 says, “I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways.”

Verse 23 says, “Princes also sit and speak against me, but Your servant meditates on Your statutes.” Reviled? Slip right back into meditating.

Verse 27 says, “Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.” Think of just one of His wonderful works, and gratitude will immediately well up in your heart.

Verse 146 says, “My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word.”

Deuteronomy 28:1-14 was written about the blessings that will accompany obedience. Verses 15-68 were about the curses that will accompany disobedience. That was 53 verses! Galatians 6:7 says, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.”

Note: we sow one kernel of corn and what do we get? Abundant kernels. Mark 4:28 says, “For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.” We reap far more than we sow. One act of disobedience can multiply exponentially.

Deuteronomy 28 was written to the children of Israel. God’s principle for us is the same. Verse 1 says, “…if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments…” Joshua 1:8 says about His word, “…you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do…”

Diligence is an inner character quality that operates whether we are seen or whether we are not seen. Observing to do are words calling us to diligence.

I often use Ephesians 1:11 as an affirmation to myself when I am praying. It says, “In Him we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will.”

God’s purpose will never be thwarted! It was set before the beginning of time. Ephesians 1:4 says that He chose us, “…before the foundation of the world…” Ephesians 2:10 says that we are His workmanship, “…created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

Acts 17: 26 says that He has made man to dwell on all the face of the earth, and “…has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…” Psalm 119:73 says, “Your hands have made me and fashioned me…”

Psalm 139:13 says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.” God’s intentions for you were established before you were conceived. What He began He will complete.

Here is the definition of infinite from the 1828 Noah Webster’s Dictionary: Without limits; unbounded; boundless; not circumscribed; applied to time, space and qualities. God is infinite in duration, having neither beginning nor end of existence. He is also infinite in presence, or omnipresent, and his perfections are infinite We also speak of infinite space.

Paul instructed his son in the faith ~ remain blameless until the coming of the Lord. 1 Timothy 6:14-15 says, “Which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, to whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be hone and everlasting power. Amen.”

Psalm 145:3 says, “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.” Romans 11:33 says, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and his ways past finding out.”

David wrote Psalm 8. Verse 4 says, “What is man that You are mindful of him…”