Rules are made to be broken…. Hmmm No!
Deuteronomy is an interesting book. It is Moses renewing the covenant that God made with the first generation of Israelites at Sinai with the second generation just before they enter the land he has promised them.
God is showing that is their God and that he cares for them and wants them to only serve him. The agreement they make is that they will keep his laws and he will bless them. But God also puts in places concequences if they disobey his rules.
Big question for us today is how do these laws apply to us now??
Many people hold on to the 10 commandments and ditch the rest because now we have Jesus but before we rip out those other pages of the bible I think they have some use for us. As with anything God does we can learn about him and how he wants us to live our lives. Sometimes a bit of historical and cultural background goes a long way to knowing why certain things where no go areas.
These laws don’t have the same curses for us (since Jesus has taken away the power of the curse) but we can learn much from them as we desire to know God and walk in his ways. These are great for knowing what God values and how he wants us to live. We see again and again that God values intergrity, justice, looking out for the poor and needy.
So if you want to know God take some time and read this book.