(REFLECTIONS ON Deuteronomy 4:25-49)

32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?

What a powerful statement by Moses, “Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?” The God that created the heavens and the earth reached out to form a relationship with Israel, choosing them, speaking to them, and calling them His own.

A mighty God, the God of the universe, but yet pouring out His love in such a personal way to Israel. Moses says that from the day God created human beings on the earth, nothing so great has ever happened.

Think now of where we have come from the days of Israel in the wilderness to the church today. If they were to feel overwhelmed with the fact that a God so big, could choose a nation so small, to be His own, then how are we as the church to feel? Shouldn’t we feel just as special?

God, so big, so mighty, so vast, all-knowing, and all-powerful, sent His Son, Jesus Christ to the world. Yes, God chose Israel, and His voice spoke to them, but for us as the church, He also was willing to come down to us, to be us, in order to form a relationship and save us, through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is God’s Word into flesh, living with us, suffering with us, mourning with us, and because He overcame the world through His death and resurrection, through Him we also are alive and have life in Him.

This life in Jesus Christ connects us with His Father, the God of the heavens and earth, and we can also call Him our Father as well. Knowing that we are in this relationship with God, as His sons and daughters, that He is our Father, doesn’t this give even more impact to what Moses said in today’s Scripture?

Brothers and sisters, “Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?”

39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.

Even more today than even during the time of Moses, may we acknowledge and take to heart today that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. And it is because of Jesus Christ, our Lord, that indeed, there is no other.

THERE IS NO OTHER!
We are His, and He is ours!
That is special, unique, and enduring.

Pastor Michael Lu
Enduring Word Bible Commentary: Deuteronomy 4