THe Lord Your God

One of the phrases that Moses uses over and over again while he talks to the people is "the Lord your God."  He uses other phrases such as "shamer" which means "be careful" but the phrase "the Lord your God" he uses over 230 times.  If we are to be faithful we must remember that God is "the Lord our God."  We need to hear it from the pulpits, we need to hear it from our teachers, we need to remind our children but most of all we need to say it to ourselves.  He is "the Lord our God".

Why was this important to Moses?  He knew the hearts of the people.  He knew that when prosperity and safety would come that they would forget the Lord their God.  We too forget the Lord our God.  We want Him to be a safe and tame God but as Mrs. Beaver said to Lucy in C. S. Lewis classic, The Lion, the Which and the Wardrobe, that He is not safe, He is a lion but He is good.