God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them.

Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges.