Deuteronomy 10:21
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
The verse was spoken in the rehearsal Moses gave to Israel before they entered the land of Canaan. It declares that God Himself is His people's praise and their God, the One they have reason to praise, because they themselves had seen with their own eyes the great, mighty, terrible, awe-inspiring and fearful things He had done for them. Their honor and cause for praise rest in Him, and He alone is their shield, strength and sufficiency.
Its surrounding context calls Israel to fear God, to walk in all His ways, to love Him, to serve Him with all heart and soul, to cling to Him, to keep His commandments and statutes for their own good, and to care for strangers. This is because He is mighty, impartial, just and compassionate, God of gods and Lord of lords who judges justly for the fatherless and widow and loves the stranger. It is He who multiplied them from seventy persons in Egypt to as many as the stars of heaven for multitude.
The verse belongs to the statement of God's requirements and will for Israel in Deuteronomy 10:12-22, calling them to keep His commands and honor Him. That statement was to be remembered and taught through song. It forms part of the education required to be given to students for their good. Together with Deuteronomy 8, 10 and 11, it should be put in the papers and gathered into a small book to be circulated everywhere, since few outside Seventh-day Adventists understand these things and Seventh-day Adventists above all people must bear it in mind.
The same words apply to the individual addressed, with the call to know God's Word and obey His commandments. All prosperity is hidden with God in Christ and depends on humility, meekness, and wholehearted obedience and devotion to Him. So when God does great things for a person he must not suppose his own abilities make him necessary to God, forget that he was purged from old sins, or think he must work the Spirit, but must submit to be worked by the Holy Spirit. The passage in Deuteronomy 10:19-22 calls God's commandment-keeping people to a distinct living connection with Him by faith, knowing their privileges as those He loves and keeps as precious as the apple of His eye while they wait and watch for the Son of Man to come in the clouds of heaven, sensing His love as light in the morning in the midst of the church militant and feeding each lamp with the golden oil of His grace and love. The verse calls Seventh-day Adventists to turn from worldly ambitious display and to refuse to be converted by the world and the nominal churches to their ideas and religious performances, but to stand by their No.