Deuteronomy 8:18 But you shall remember the LORD your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth… 1. How worldly success is to be obtained. By strict obedience to God's laws; by this only. Work is what He demands, and work is the only condition under which the prize may be won. 2. The nature of the profit we are to look for. Not merely worldly profit. No life so dreary, so deadly as that of the mere millionaire. The joys of the true man's life he cannot taste; the holy fellowships of spiritual being he cannot enter,: God stamps him reprobate. There is a vast wealth of faculty in him, "fusting" from want of use. And power unused soon gets acrid, and mordant, and gnaws and wears within. 3. Why we should remember the Lord God. Because — (1) It will bring us out at once into the glad sunlight, and will make even our toil lightsome. (2) It will spare us all wearing and crushing anxieties. (3) It will save us the shame and anguish of finding ourselves bankrupt at last and forever. (J. B. Brown, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. |
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