8:6
The instruction to obey is repeated, just in case the people haven’t got the point. They are to walk in obedience and to revere the Lord. It is not just a matter of following some rules, or complying with some requirements. It is a heart matter, a whole life matter. We are to love the Lord, to respect Him, and living according to His ways is to be a way of life.
8:7
The Lord was bringing them into a good land. The people had whinged their way through the desert, complaining that things were much better in Egypt (they weren’t!). But God was bringing them into a good land. It had brooks, streams and deep springs gushing out of the valleys and hills. Living in Scotland I don’t appreciate to the same level the importance of water, but water was vital, and often in short supply. Not so in the Promised Land, it was well supplied with water (no pun intended).
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