Deuteronomy 26: 5 “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor. 7 Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. 8 And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders. 9 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
As God prepared His people for entering the Promised Land, he provided ways to help them remember that He had heard them in the past. Bringing of the firstfruits was one of those memory devices. As one brought his gifts to the Lord, the statement above was to be recited. We need to remember where we have come from to have what we have. The Lord heard, saw, and acted, and because He did, we have all we do. Because God hears us, we respond with thanksgiving.
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