Today, I am reading and commenting on Deuteronomy 8-10.

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Moses starts out by telling the people of Israel to remember the forty years that God had led them in the wilderness.  They were to remember that God did this in order to make them humble.  God fed them manna so that He might teach them that man does not live by bread alone.  Rather man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.  Moses expands on this by explaining that when we become wealthy and powerful, we will be tempted to take credit for our wealth and power, to think we came by them because of our own abilities.  We may stop giving credit to God for what He has given us and begin to worship other gods.  One of the other gods we may worship in that instance is ourselves.  Another mistake we may make which Moses points out here is that we may think that God has given us power and/or wealth while others are weak and poor because we deserve it, because we are righteous.   Moses reminded the people of Israel that time and again they had rebelled against God as they travelled the wilderness.  So, God was giving them the land He had promised to Abraham’s descendants, not because of their righteousness, but rather because He chose to do so.  Let us remember that we have repeatedly sinned against God.  God has shown us mercy and invited us into His kingdom because He is a loving God, not because we are special people.

All of the previous means that we must strive to walk in God’s ways.  God asks us to fear Him, to love Him, and serve Him with all of our heart and with all of our soul.  Doing so will work together for our good.  Moses in this passage tells the children of Israel that God gave them the ritual of circumcision as a reminder to cut stubbornness and rebellion out of their hearts.  Let us do likewise and cut stubbornness and rebellion out of our hearts.  Remember that God executes justice for the fatherless and the widow and loves the sojourner.  Therefore we too should seek justice for the powerless and love to those who have no family near them.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.