A Treasury Trove
Deuteronomy 28:12-13
“The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall go up and not go down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, …”
The human mind is far less enigmatic than we’d like to admit. In fact, the study of anthropology never needed PhD psychologists and theorists and millions of clinical trials to figure humanity out (a pursuit that is expanding now more than ever before), which is a bit humorous since thinkers as far back as the Sumerians, and then on to the Greek metaphysicians and astronomers, and then up to Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers, all thought they’d cracked the human code but really only cracked it wider open than ever. Oh how poor and wretched we are in our ingratitude! See, friend, how do we know that the Bible isn’t just another theoretical outline in man’s storied history of self-realization? How can we tell that Moses isn’t just another Marcus Aurelius or a Sigmund Freud or a Ghandi? Look at the words above. They’re a mirror, aren’t they? God, through His servant, has just outlined in a single paragraph the whole scope of human desire. But of course He has—He created us after all! He knows us inside and out. Yet, the more amazing fact isn’t that He can name our needs, but that He can fulfill them.
We’ve hungered and thirsted our entire lives, and God has brought the rain. We’ve craved purpose and value in the works of our hands, pursued hobbies and careers to fulfill them, and God has given meaning to our toil. We’ve yearned for relationships and community, for ways to participate in the struggle of human life together, and God has given us an abundance of co-laborers. And we’ve inescapably yearned to be known and seen and appreciated and cherished, and God has embraced us as sons and daughters!
Surely, even today, even right now, new mercies from our LORD’s good treasury are spilling out through the skies into our lives of faith! Receive them, friend. Be thankful for them. And treasure them above all else!