In Deuteronomy 30:1-10 as Moses is speaking to Israelites, he is letting them know three things about God and their future in the Promised Land. One, God knows all and is always in control. Two, God will always fulfill his promises, whether they are blessings or curses. Three, God desires his people to follow him with their whole hearts and minds.
As Pastor Craig taught us on Sunday, January 15, God knew the Israelites would wander from him and sin against their God, even to the point of building altars and idols in the temple of God! As a result of their future disobedience, Moses told the Israelites that they would be dispersed among nations. Imagine, they had not even entered the Promised Land and here Moses was communicating from God already about their being exiled!
Yet, God’s grace was also demonstrated. In this passage God, in his infinite wisdom and grace, was speaking to them words of reassurance, which would ring true in their ears after their betrayals. In this passage Moses says that when they return to the Lord, “the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back” (v4). In verse 10, Moses also says to the Israelites that “The LORD will again delight in you…if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Today it is important for us to acknowledge another aspect of God, which is that he does not change. God still desires us to turn to him with all our whole heart and soul after disobedience and sin and to obey him once again; and just like he did with the Israelites, He will always show us grace and mercy and bring us home to him.
