105. Love, Bless, Multiply
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
God continues listing the blessed consequences for obeying, keeping, and doing the Ten Commandments. These are wonderful conditional promises for the people of God who believe in Jesus Christ. NT believers take these promises as spiritual, rather than material, blessings. God gives us spiritual blessings, but he couches the promises in material, physical, and earthly terms so that we can see and understand what is happening to us in the spiritual world in the heart. Jesus, who earns the promises for us and gifts them to us for free, satisfies the condition for us. By faith, we claim what God promises to give.
First, the Lord will love you. In this context, loving means gifting material wealth and physical blessings. The Lord will show His love with material and spiritual gifts. Every good gift is from above. Every good thing we enjoy comes from God the Father who loves us and loves to give us good things.
Second, He will bless you. In this context, the Lord is promising material blessings, which are tangible tokens of God’s love. But also, blessings come in many intangible ways from the Father, who sees and cares. There is no greater blessing or token of love than the peace that passes understanding and the joy of the Lord as our strength.
Third, He will multiply you. Once again in this context, He is first of all referring to having many children, grandchildren and workers around us. Additionally, there is the intangible blessing of seeing your faith, fruit of the Spirit, godly character, and loving personality being multiplied among your family and friends.
Fourth, He will bless the fruit of the womb, the fields, the crops, the harvest of grapes and olive oil, and the increase of cattle and sheep. All of these material blessings are common ways of measuring wealth and prosperity. We can see it. Now we may transfer such material abundance to the spiritual kingdom in which God showers us with more expansive and expensive spiritual blessings than we could ever imagine.
All of this is “in the land.” God gives us the land, the kingdom of God; He places it in our hearts to personally dwell there and rule and bless from there. “Seek first His Kingdom…” and all these blessings will follow. Believe the Gospel and enter into the kingdom of promise, blessing, and an abundance of good things. Do so daily.