Forget-me-not

I don’t know if it has been obvious, but I have become quite the Old Testament fan lately…  this is a pretty sizeable chunk- but is really what has been on my heart these past few days:

“When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.”

-Deuteronomy 8:10-18

I have just been coming out of that time of wilderness and unknowing where God really did sustain me and grow me closer to Him.  He has now opened up doors and blessed me with steady employment and with that more direction to plug in and go places.  This truly has been an answer to prayer in many ways, however with things starting to click and fit together I am reminded of the above passage.  I know my tendencies and the tendencies of so many- it is almost easier to rely on God in the difficult and hard moments when we don’t know and don’t have control, however when things are going well it is really easy to focus on ourselves and what is going on instead of God.  In this time of great blessing I do not want to turn my face away from the giver- I do not want to forget God and become comfortable in these blessings, eventually shifting the focus and praise to myself.

I feel like it is so backwards because in times of blessing is when I should be most focused on praising and worshipping him- and historically that is not the case.  I become a creature of habit instead of worship- and of complacency instead of continuing to seek.