133 :: Do You Intend to Keep the Commandments?

This timely message offers a reflection on Deuteronomy 8:2-3 that is perfect for Lent! Ralph invites us to a personal examination of conscience that can open our hearts to deepen our commitment to faithfulness. "Remember how for these forty years the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness,b so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna,c a food unknown to you and your ancestors, so you might know that it is not by bread alone* that people live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD." // Deuteronomy 8:2-3