Today's readings are Psalm 86.1-10, Deuteronomy 5:1-21, and Matthew 8:18-34.
In Deuteronomy 5:9-10 we see that God is the God who is jealous for his people. Our God, the redeeming God, gathers his people and jealously guards them. Those who will not approach him in faith he allows to feel the sting of their evil, and it is a serious situation. They suffer, as we read, to the third and fourth generation. We can observe that suffering in families tends to go on for several generations. Poverty, abusive situations, and all manner of evils tend to follow each other in multiple generations of a family. But what of those who love God and keep his commandments? Look how much greater God's love is than the wrath which is shown earlier. He shows that love to thousands of those people - thousands of generations. As far as the eye can see, God's blessing is on those who love him and who desire to keep his commandments. He enables them to come to him in faith. He rejoices in our attempts to keep his commands, simply because they are pleasing to him.
Let us come near to God, loving him, approaching him in faith, looking to his mercy and love to conform us into the image of God the Son, Jesus Christ.
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