Week 62, Day 4: They Will Overtake You

Today’s Reading:  Deut 28:1-68

Some thoughts from today’s reading…

After speaking of some of the curses that would come upon Israel for acting wickedly, Moses tells them of the blessings that will “overtake” them if they obey the Lord God (vs. 2).  What Moses describes is that God would bless them in every facet of their lives.  The blessings would pour out in every way in their life.  Because they were faithful to God and kept the covenant with Him, He would bless them beyond what a person could imagine.  In EVERY way possible. 

But in like manner, if they disobeyed God and rebelled against His commands, the curses would “overtake” them (vs. 15).  I thought it interesting that the amount of time Moses spends speaking of the curses was three times as much as the time spent on the blessings.  This could be to emphasize how much they needed to avoid being unfaithful to God.  He gives grusome details of what would come upon them for violating God’s commands.  Moses graphicly describes for them how horrible things would be until they were driven and destroyed from the promised land.  Another aspect to why he spent so much more time on the bad over the good is that we tend to take the good for granted.  How good can you say good will be?  Things would be great, really great for them if they kept God’s commands.  But the pain and sorrow that would come from the curses could be more “vivid” for them to understand.  Pain and sorrow beyond imagination would come.  Moses gives them a “snapshot” of what would happen – and they still went astray.  There are probably a lot of parrallels that could be drawn between the consequences of their unfaithfulness and the results that will come to those today who disregard God’s commands, but I will leave that for you to think more about.

Question:  What do you think it means when Moses says in verse 37 that they would become a horrow, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you?

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