1. Investing in Your Memories Deuteronomy 8:1-5

2. Our memories remind us of …

3. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises

4. 1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 8:1

5. ›God promises to get us through the wilderness to the Promised Land together.

6. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises

7. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises
Our Failures

8. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
Deuteronomy 8:2

9. ›Our wilderness journeys reveal our hearts by showing what we value the most.

10. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises
Our Failures

11. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises
Our Failures
God’s Provision

12. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your

13. clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
(Deuteronomy 8:3-4)

14. ›The only way we can appreciate the blessing of God’s sustenance is when we first experience genuine need.

15. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises
Our Failures
God’s Provision

16. Our memories remind us of …
God’s Promises
Our Failures
God’s Provision
Our Blessings

17. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5

18. 5 … “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, 6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
(Heb. 12:5b-6; quoting Prov. 3:11-12)

19. ›Without it, we become self-absorbed
›Without it, we become self-absorbed. With it, we become Christ-centered servants who experience the freedom, joy, and love of laying down our lives for Him.

20. Investing in Your Memories Deuteronomy 8:1-5