Deuteronomy 7:23 But the Lord your God will hand those nations over to you, confusing them until they are destroyed. 24 The Lord will help you defeat their kings, and the world will forget who they were. No one will be able to stop you; you will destroy them all.

i have read deuteronomy before. but this time, i think i am paying attention. you know how you read stuff sometimes, and you have to go back and reread because something just did not stick? well, it has taken a few years, but i am reading this great book again. God is telling His people, the Israelites, His commands again because He wants them to understand how important they are. it is not as redundant as i thought it might be. it is like the first few chapters of this book are a father's pleading to His children to listen to His good instruction, to obey Him because He DOES actually know what He is doing, and because He has brought them through hardship and out of slavery before. it is how i think i should be praying to Him for the good of my own children.

amazing how much we are like the Israelites huh? God brought me out of my own Egypt and i continually question Him and wonder what more He will do for me, just like His chosen people did years ago. but... when we give our lives over to Him and allow Him to part our Red Seas we will see miracles in our own lives. we can be delivered from all kinds of weaknesses, from the things we hold as idols in our lives, from sickness, from addiction or just plain bad decision-making. i know i was. i have to admit, when i think of being delivered, so many people come to my mind. but... i have to backtrack, because i am the first one in my life who needs that deliverance. the Lord keeps breaking me down and showing me that i have to give over EVERYTHING to Him so that He can take care of all my needs. He will confuse my "nations and kings" (things in my life that are bad) until i have overcome them. He will defeat the enemy for me and maybe one day people from my past, present, and future will look at me and only see the person i have become in Christ and not the old person i was before.