March 4, 2022: Day 49 – Deuteronomy 32-34 and Psalm 1

We were set up in the previous chapter for these chapters where we were told that Moses had put together a song that was to be recited and sang by the generations to come so that they could remember how God had worked and how God would work in the history of the nations.  So his ditty begins in vs.32 where we find something more of a curse where Israel is said to be unfaithful and to turn their back on God.  As Moses calls them: “They are a nation void of sense.”  

After this song God tells Moses that he will take him up a mountain called Mount Nebo and there he would die.  The next chapter Moses blesses all of the tribes of Israel and names them by name.  This is quite a long chapter because there are twelve tribes that need to be blessed in this chapter alone.  In the last chapter we see Moses does climb Mt. Nebo and he dies there and was buried in the land of Moab.  He is one that is described as someone who saw God face to face.  That’s pretty impressive.  

Psalm 1 basically gives us the costs and benefits of following God or not following God.  There is the image of a tree planted along the river.  Each decision that we make either brings us closer to God or further away from God.