Deuteronomy 27 and 28
I cannot tell you how many times I have tried to write this post. Have I mentioned we have a new puppy? We are quite busy these days. :)
Whew. This passage was tough to read.
Blessings and curses.
Moses tells the people what kinds of blessings to expect if they follow God's commands. It is a nice little paragraph. Then he begins to list the curses that will occur if they don't. And just reading them made my toes curl. Not pleasant. Not pleasant at all.
But the part that really stuck out to me was that the people were told to write God's words in stone. Not only would it be a physical reminder that they would see in their land but just think about what happens when you write out word for word these many commands of the Lord. They begin to stick in your mind. Kind of like in college when we could have a "cheat sheet" for a test. We would write everything we needed to know in tiny little letters to fit it all on an index card, then we wouldn't need them because by then the words were etched in our brains.
Maybe I need to be writing out the Bible rather than just reading and commenting on it!
Reba
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