DEVOTIONAL

REMEMBER THE LORD

Deuteronomy 8:2

Forty years of wandering in the wilderness is a long time. For some of us, we have been wandering through this world our entire lives searching for something that has been right in front of our face the whole time. Scripture says that those who wholeheartedly seek the truth will find it (Jeremiah 29:13). God is patient and pursues all, not wanting any to perish (2 Peter 3:9). 

In Deuteronomy 8:2 Moses instructs the people to never forget what God had done for them. The forty years that His people had been wandering was purposeful. God used that time to reveal Himself to His people as well as to refine them. Before they could enter into the promised land