And if you will indeed obey My commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. And He will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full. (Deuteronomy 11:13-15 ESV
Fear Not… Then Expect Blessing
This is not the first time we have found this hopeful expectation in God’s covenantal promises. And it will not be the last. It is a common refrain in the song of God’s Word.
Because we need to be reminded.
We are cynics. We are more comfortable with God’s spiritual promises than His physical promises. We are quick to observe times that God apparently does not keep this kind of promise. We do not want to appear to be weird fanatics.
But God says what God says.
He will bless His people. When our trust is such that we stop being afraid of other things, we can expect blessings. Not necessarily the blessings we are demanding and seeking… but blessings of such a nature that when we see them, we will be awe-struck.
We will eat and be full.
Personally, I think our yearning for this hope is behind our statistical predictions. I think our yearning for this hope is behind our culture’s infatuation with horoscopes. I think our yearning for this hope is why we like happy endings to our stories.
But instead of seeking hope in mathematics, horoscopes, and fiction, let us look instead to the Word of the One True Living God.
Fear not, then expect blessing.