Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.
The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.
God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.
Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason.
Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.
God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.
Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.
Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.
Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.
Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not.
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.
God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.
The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.
Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable.
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
By definition, if man contributes anything toward acceptance by God, he loses everything. God expects man to be the recipient, not the originator. Jesus paid it all, not 99% of it. Paul wrote, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast"
The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.
God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.
In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.