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Deuteronomy
I T I S T H E E V E of the most important day of your life: a new job,
a new career, marriage, cancer surgery, a move to a faraway place.
Or perhaps you are a teen, and tomorrow is your driver’s license exam.
Perhaps you are in the mature years and are entering a nursing home
or retirement center. Whatever it is, tomorrow will be the dawn of a
new day, a new life, and it is filled with uncertainties.
What you will be
But a wise old friend sits down with you. “Let
reading about
me give you some good advice,” he says. “Let me
help you prepare for tomorrow,” she tells you.
1:1– 3:29
Moses reminds the people
So as the eve of that most important day wears
of the past
on, you listen intently to someone you trust. You
listen as he recalls events of the past and what
4:1- 49
Moses urges the people to
brought you to this point, listen as she sums up
obey God
the sage advice in a few words—trust God, obey
5:1-33
God, make the right choices, be faithful in your
The Ten Commandments
new experience.
6:1–11:32
That is the message of the book of Deuteronomy.
A call to remember God
Forty years earlier, Moses had led a loosely knit
and obey
band of slaves out of Egypt, an experience that
12:1– 26:19
was graced with miracle after miracle from God.
Instructions for life in the
Now they are at the threshold of the Promised
Promised Land
Land, and in a series of short talks, Moses reminds
27:1–28:68
the people where they have been, what they have
Blessings for obedience;
curses for disobedience
learned, and what God expects of them as they
enter the new land that God has promised them.
29:1– 30:20
The choice of life or death
Every person who listened to these addresses
by Moses had lost a mother or father or both
31:1– 34:12
during the past forty years. In fact, the IsraelThe death of Moses
ites could not enter the Promised Land until the
entire older generation had died. That was their punishment for complaining
and failing to trust God to do as he had promised and bring them safely into
the land. Even Moses could not enter the land because he, the leader, had disobeyed at a critical moment. He was speaking from experience.
Now Moses spoke to this younger generation. Would they listen? Or would
they, like those before them, ignore his advice and miss out on all God wanted
to give them? The choice was theirs. It was the eve of the most important day
of their lives. What would they do? What would you do?
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