The Lawgiver Urges Obedience

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it when Moses says you are to impress upon your children these commandments. Talk about them when you sit at home, when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on your door frames or your houses and gates. Oh how I try to do this. I bring God into almost everything I do all day with the kids. Some of the curriculum I have chose is specifically chosen because of its contents with God. When we hear an ambulance we stop and pray for the people. (We live near a hospital so we hear them quit a lot in the distance). I want my kids to think of God in everything they do. I want it to become second nature to them to pray at every turn in their lives.

He also states that the people of Israel were few and not mighty. He said this not to put them down but once again to show Gods power and His love for them. Moses is pleading with the people to keep Gods laws. It is a very sad thing what is going on here. Moses is at the end of his life and he is pleading for their obedience because he knows how these people are. They are a grumbling, non-obedient people. Hmmm, sound like anyone you know?

This chapter focuses on Moses remembering all the trials that made them depend on God. Now that they are about ready to be a prospering nation, he is fearful that they will forget. Which we know is all so easy. When things are going good we tend to back away from God. When things get really hard we are on our knees. In EVERY circumstance we need to remember God! Prosperity can snare us into idolatry. All of us either are doing that now or have fallen into this trap. All we have to do is just look around our home. hey, i am not saying that we have to live in a tent and own nothing. What I am saying is that when we are buying the best and bigger things that we must have we need to remember who is giving the ability to buy these things and we have to remember that these things are NOT God. They are just things. The people are warned that if they do not obey and they turn to paganism that their nation will be surely be destroyed like the nations the Lord destroyed before them. Lets make sure we remember all the things God has done for us so that we will surely not be destroyed!