[:en]When God blessed Israel with military success, peace and prosperity, they thought they had achieved it on their own. They became proud and self-sufficient (Deut. 8:11-12). They assumed that they no longer needed God and went on their own way until an enemy attacked before they realized how weak and helpless they were without God’s help.
This also happens to us. When life is well and easy, we depend on our own strength and forget about God. When trouble comes, that is the time we acknowledge how powerless we are without God’s help. Let us be humble before the Lord and be grateful to credit every success to Him.[:]