September 25, 2011 – Deuteronomy 8-9

The Lord disciplines us like a father to a son. The world will say that we do not need discipline, that we can control ourselves, that science does not need moral constraints. What does science look like without morals. It looks a lot like what we are seeing now, with abortion, chemical births, cloning, euthanasia, the end of any respect for the human person. It is a slide that leads, not to freedom, but discrimination, because those in power will simply do away with those they don’t want around and without a moral footing, no one can tell them they are wrong.

They are told to follow the Whole Commandment. This is something many Catholics have a hard time with. A catholic is suppose to follow all the church’s teachings, not just the ones they like or agree with. Cafeteria Catholics are not Catholics, they are actually protestant.

When things go well, don’t forget who got you there. God is warning them that they will have great success, but not to forget God, which they will. Not only do we forget God when we have success, we also forget many of the people that God put in our lives to help us get where we are going.

Nothing they have done is giving them the land. God is giving it to them freely and He can just as easily take it away if the falter. And here Moses seems to plead with God in a very human way. Saying that He should not do something because of what people will think of Him. Would God ever be convinced to do something because of an opinion poll. Of course not, but we see here that even Moses does not quite grasp God or we see that Moses is still human with all our weaknesses.