Therefore
Only people who can rightly interpret their past can sustain themselves long-term in their future. For several chapters in Deuteronomy Moses has been unpacking the long tortured history of Israel. He has reminded them of their stubbornness, God's mercy in spite of it and how to this day they have struggled to fully trust and fully obey God. We come to chapter 11 of Deuteronomy and it opens with a BIG "therefore." Deuteronomy 11:1–7 (ESV) “You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. 2 And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3 his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land, 4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow ove...