157 Nothing or Nobody Else (Deut 4)

Waders.
Distractions.
Blog.
Distractions.
Football.
Distractions.
Sleep.
Not likely.
Head space.
Diminishing.
Love Thursdays.
Oh and I should squeeze family in there as well.
But mainly, distractions.
Oh and I measured up another section of the fence that never ends this afternoon.
Not sure why.
I guess it'll come in handy one day.
As long as I don't lose the measurements.
Onwards........


Deuteronomy 4
This is a "full" chapter. There is so much good in it, I'm struggolling where to start.
And how to spell "struggling".

The wilderness years are encapsulated in this one passage of chapter 4

v32-35 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.

Remember God because God remembers you.
Keep God's commandments to prolong your days.
Follow the laws and statutes to remain set apart.
Others will recognise the work of God in you and through you.

Pretty simple.

And above all God will never leave you or forget you and if you do stray and then wish to come back to Him, He will accept you.
He is merciful.

I think the call to not be distracted by things around the people is sound.
When things seem to go wrong, a penchant to hold onto the ways of the tribes around them was strong.
Wow, inadvertent poetry.
The warning is clear, there is nothing in the natural that could do what the people of Israel have seen God do.
Nothing else could deliver them.
Nothing else could win battles for them.
Nothing else could impart wisdom and mercy.
Nothing else could speak to them the way God did.
Nothing.
Not bird.
Not animal.
Not plant.
Not heavenly body.

'Nuff Said.
For now ;)