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May 11th -- Deuteronomy 28
The Blessings of God
It was part of the promise under the national covenant of Israel, that God would bless them in basket and store if they were obedient; and that disobedience would bring blasting and poor harvest. It was part of an arrangement of national life, where material prosperity, expressed in an agricultural community in the terms of the produce of the land and of cattle, was the blessing of their Divine Ruler. We might be drawn to entirely wrong conclusions if we determined a man's standing in divine favour in these days of industrial activity, by the vast accumulations of wealth beyond contemplation for others than rulers in simpler ages. We would also be misled in following the prevailing temper of the present day in regarding all laws of nature as explicable by natural science, and being in no way subject to divine rule. While it would be a mistake to relate all natural happenings, good harvests, wet seasons, earthquakes and storms, to the divine will, to exclude them from God's operations if He so desired would be a greater mistake.
John Carter, Prophets after the Exile, page 205