God is Gracious Deut. 9

 

Deuteronomy 9 God is Gracious

 

God did not save the Israelites because they were good or an outstanding nation. God has not saved us because we are outstanding, or superior, or even good. The only kind of people God is saving is bad people who repent of their sins and turn to Him.

God gave the Israelites a report on the promised land a worse report than what the spies had brought back. God knew the land and God knew who was in the land, yet God had told them to go in. He knew all the difficulties. He had promised to go into the land with them. God tells them that He is driving out the other nations because they are wicked nations- not because the people He is putting in there are righteous. He knew all the time that they were a stiff-necked people, but He heard their cry in Egypt. If you recognize that you are a sinner and need a Savior, then you will need to cry to Him for Salvation. He will hear you. It is for Christ’s sake that God saves us, and God finds everything we need in Him.

Moses directs them back over their past history and refers specifically to the time when they made the golden calf. God calls them to remember this, but they forgot. Moses identified himself with the people when he said he would not go up into the land without the presence of the Lord. At that very moment when God was giving them the commandments, they were turning from Him -yet they were saying they would obey Him.

We all need to say the prayer of the Psalmist, “Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Ps. 139:23-24.

Moses knew God and His ways, and he knew God hates sin. God has never ignored a sin we commit and never will. He punishes sin. Moses also knew the mercy of God, but we do not comprehend how wonderful He is! He is so gracious; He extends mercy to the sinner.

 

 

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J. Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.