“And you shall observe all my statutes… and do them: I am the Lord.”
Over and over again in this chapter the people are reminded of the essential reason for their required obedience – “I am the Lord”.
Stop and think, O Israel, who it was who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt, who it was who met with Moses on the top of fiery Mt. Sinai and wrote out with own hand on tablets of stone his commandments for you, who it was who provided gushing water from a rock to quench your thirst and nourishing bread from heaven to assuage your hunger, who it is who is guiding you through a barren wilderness to a promised land flowing with milk and honey, who it is who provides a way for your sins to be atoned for, who it is whose heart’s desire is to dwell with a people all his own.
“I am the Lord.”
