10:1
“Ask the Lord for rain ...”. What was the fundamental problem for the people of Israel? It was that they looked to other sources for their supply. The truth of the matter is that it is the Lord who supplies all our needs. This does not mean we do not work, nor that it doesn’t matter whether we work well or make a complete hash of things, but we need to know that our ultimate source of supply is the Lord. In Matt 5:45 Jesus said that the Lord sends rain on the just and the unjust, and here we read that the Lord sends rain to all people. For the nations that were not the Lord’s, He just seems to have let them get on with it, He sent the rain, but let them carry on worshipping their idols. For Israel things were different. God wanted them to know Him.
10:2
But Israel did not know the Lord, and so they turned to idols. But these idols spoke deceitfully. We may think that we do not worship idols today, but that is not so. We are prone to trusting in anything other than the Lord. Various things promise security or happiness, but they “speak deceitfully”. They offer comfort, but in vain. ie their promises prove worthless. So if we trust in anything other than God we too will wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.
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