Daily Reminder That We are Different
Deuteronomy 14:1–3 (ESV) “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 3 “You shall not eat any abomination. You are either confused about the Old Testament dietary laws, ignore them completely or use them as an excuse to ignore other parts of the Old Testament - particularly laws about sexuality that you do not like. The other option is that you consider what God is TEACHING His people about who they are and that He has given them 3 reminders per day about this incredible reality. Notice how the chapter on food laws begins. God calls them sons, then God calls them a people holy to Himself. The wording is intentional to make sure Israel is fully aware that their identity is sacred and tied to the Lord God ov...