“When you take possession of houses you didn’t build, vineyards and olive trees you didn’t plant, and wells you didn’t dig, beware,” Moses warned, “lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of bondage.”

There is peril in prosperity. When things are going well, when things come our way which bless and amaze us, there is an insidious danger, for it is in those days that we can forget the Lord and think that it’s our energy, our effort, our creativity, ingenuity, or hard work that gets us where we are.

In Deuteronomy 8, God reminds the people that it was He who gave them everything they had. And it is He who does the same for us; for truly, the foundational essence of our Father is that He is a giver . . .

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits. - Psalm 68:19

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. - Psalm 81:10

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” - Matthew 7:7

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son . . .” - John 3:16

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us . . . - Ephesians 3:20

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. - James 1:17

“You’re in for a treat,” Moses said. “God is going to give you cities and houses you didn’t build; olive trees, vineyards, and wells you neither had to plant nor dig.” And daily He does the same for us.