This Glorious and Awesome Name

Moses calls the people to do all that is in the Torah so that they may fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord God (Deut 28.58). I love the ESV translation of this verse. It is a glorious and awesome name and we ought to do all that God calls us to do because it demonstrates that we do fear this glorious and awesome name.

This is the nature of God. He has a glorious and awesome name, meaning that his character and all that he is exists as glorious and awe inspiring and worthy of obedience and trust. When the people did not follow his law, they demonstrated their lack of fear for his name, and of course all of the punishment mentioned in the long chapter of Deut 28 came upon them.

We, no less than Israel, are called to fear this glorious and awesome name in our daily lives.

Giving to God What is Due

Moses clearly explains to the Israelites in Deut 8.17, that success, wealth, and by inference, talent and opportunity, come from God. They (and we) ought to be very careful that, when they became successful, they not sit back and pat themselves on the back and say, "look what an incredible person I am." Unfortunately, the human tendency is to do just that.