Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
God is near Israel. There is NO nation that has the privileges and care that Israel had and has. God choose them, as the least among all nation. He then mad them a great nation. ONLY God can make one man (Abraham) into a GREAT nation. That is what God does. He takes the least and makes them the most. He takes the one and makes it many. That other nations are supposed to see this transformation. The nation of Israel was to be God’s example of power and blessing. But, they turned against God and wanted to be like the lessor nations around them. God wants them to have the power of His love, protection and provision. But, they turned to eat the crumbs of the world. That was not God’s intention. We can do the same thing. We can be in God’s love and blessing and want to please our our lust and turn to the fragments that the world offer. We think we have instant pleasure but we only are settling for mere morsels of the world rather than the eternal blessings of God.
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