Obedience Protects You - They Lacked Nothing!

[Bible Speaks]

"They lacked nothing."—Neh. 9:21.

THE NEED FOR DISCIPLINE

How did Jehovah mercifully care for his sinful people? (b) What do we learn from God’s dealings with his chosen nation?

The Levites’ prayer refers to two specific sins committed by Israel soon after they had promised to keep God’s Law at Mount Sinai. For these, they rightly deserved to be left alone to die. But the prayer praises Jehovah: “In your abundant mercy [you] did not leave them in the wilderness. . . . For forty years you provided them with food . . . They lacked nothing. Their very garments did not wear out, and their feet themselves did not become swollen.” (Neh. 9:19, 21) 

Today, Jehovah also provides us with everything we need to serve him faithfully. May we never be like the thousands of Israelites who died in the wilderness because of their disobedience and lack of faith. In fact, those things “were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.”—1 Cor. 10:1-11.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013766#h=1:0-29:442

Faithful Worshippers Support Theocratic Arrangements

TREASURES FROM GOD’S WORD | NEHEMIAH 9-11

Faithful Worshippers Support Theocratic Arrangements

God’s people willingly supported true worship in various ways

• The nation prepared for and celebrated the Festival of Booths in the correct way
• Each day the people gathered to listen to the reading of God’s Law, which made them rejoice
• The people confessed their sins, prayed, and asked Jehovah to bless them
• The people agreed to continue supporting all theocratic arrangements

Continued support of theocratic arrangements included:

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  Marrying only those who worshipped Jehovah
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  Making monetary contributions
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  Observing the Sabbath
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  Supplying wood for the altar
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  Giving the firstfruits of the harvest and the firstborn of the flocks to Jehovah
• http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/202016047?q=neh+9%3A21&p=par