Deuteronomy 10:20-21 Fear the Lord your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His Name. (The Lord calls us to know Who He is, that because of Who He is, and because we come to be in utter awe of His dreadful power, to revere Him, to obediently serve Him, to cling tightly to Him, to join ourselves inextricably to Him, to make everything we do and say pleasing to Him, and to charge ourselves to live life in covenant with Him.) He is the One you praise; He is your God, Who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. (Like the Israelites who saw first-hand the mighty works of God on their behalf as He led them out of the slavery of their Egyptian bondage,
when we remember Who He is and all that He has done, when we recall what life would be like without Him as Lord of our life, we know that this God is no human-sized god of our own making. Then we also call to mind the places in our own lives where He has intervened, where He has rescued, where He has delivered, where He has provided, where He has healed and restored, where He has revealed Himself, where He has saved us from external circumstances which we may or may not have caused, and where He has saved us from our own internal, self-destructive tendencies to which we have yielded control. Because of His interactions in our past and because of His loving plans for today and for our future, He is, indeed, the One to Whom we give our praise today and Who we remember is our God.)
