Deuteronomy 32:7 says, Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. Moses told them to remember the days of old and remember the years of the many generations that came before them. We still need to remember the past generations of Christians that the Bible records for us, and the struggles and triumphs of God's people. Verse eight adds, When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. Moses said that when God divided the land among the people of the world after the flood, that even though the Canaanites would possess it for a time, this was already established by God to be the Promised Land. He said that God set the bounds according to the number of the children of Israel. We as followers of Christ already have a heavenly home prepared for us, and it will accommodate all who accept Him. Verse nine continues, For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. Moses said that God's portion of the people of the world were the people who like Jacob had put their faith in Him. Not all of Jacob's descendents were a part of God's people, because they refused to put their faith in Him. Having the most devout Christian parents today does not make us a pert of the family of God. We must choose individually to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord to become a part of God's family. Verse ten states, He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Moses said God found Jacob in the desert and the waste of the howling wilderness. God will find us and call us to Him today, even if we are in the greatest wilderness of sin that there can be. We do not just stumble across God, but He calls us to Him. Verse eleven adds, As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: Verse twelve continues, So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. Moses said just as an eagle protects her young, so had God protected the descendents of Jacob on the way to the Promised Land, and there was no strange god who did it. We must acknowledge God as the only God and put our faith in Him if we are going to get to Heaven one day. Verse thirteen declares, He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; Moses said that God was the One Who gave Jacob and His descendants success because of their covenant relationship with Him. It was not some greater value that Jacob had because of who he was, but was the value that He had because of his faith in God, just as our value today comes from our faith in Jesus Christ alone as our Savior and Lord and the only way to salvation. Verse fourteen adds, Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. Moses said God had abundantly provided for the people of Israel, and He still provides for His people today. We will never lack spiritually if we remain true to God. Verse fifteen continues, But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Moses said that with God's blessings they had grown fat, and then they turned away from God, the Rock of their salvation. We need to make sure that as Christians when we grow rich in the things of this world that we do not turn away from following God's guidance. Verse sixteen states, They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. The people of Israel began to follow strange gods and provoked Gods anger. Verse seventeen adds, They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Moses said that the people of Israel had started following strange and new gods. There are also many new and false gods today that people put above God, even if we often do not call them gods. Verse eighteen continues, Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. Moses said that the people of Israel had forgotten God. Even as God had brought them out of Egypt and to the Promised Land, they had forgotten Him. We as followers of Christ cannot afford to do the same thing.
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