Dt. 10: Commandment Recap

Deuteronomy 10:12-13 "And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?"

I guess the verse above about sums it up. Here Moses recounts the giving of the ten commandments.

Something I realized here is that the Israelites probably don't have any sense of history. They don't have any sense of context for their actions. They probably railed against God because he probably appeared to be punishing them for absolutely no reason whatsoever. They probably thought they were doing pretty darn good for themselves.

They had no play-by-play going on when they screwed stuff up. When they openly rebelled against God. They had the commands and decrees, given numerous times, I might add, and continued to be failures.

What a wonderful revelation of the love of God, to be reminded that everything, the earth, the heavens, the highest heavens...all that belong to God, were created by Him, and he chooses to set His affection upon the Israelites. Humbling.

God is strength for the weak, the widows and orphans. That's how I can sum up chapter 10.