Deuteronomy 32:36-38 The Lord will vindicate His peopleand relent concerning His servants when He sees their strength is goneand no one is left, slave or free. (After chastising His people for what He knows will be their future disobedience and failure to faithfully follow Him, the Lord reassures them that His discipline will end and He will restore them. After His punishment, He mercifully restores His protection and deliverance. Ever watchful of us even in our rebelliousness, the Lord knows when we have reached our limit of endurance and promises to return us to His favor. His forgiveness will extend to everyone, to all of us, which is the meaning of the phrase "no one is left," no matter who they are or how far they are strayed.) He will say: "Now where are their gods,the rock they took refuge in, the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you!Let them give you shelter! (As the Lord delivers His people from their apostasy, He will remind them of the foolishness of their trust in impotent idols, of embracing those things that interfere with true worship of the One True God. He will remind them that when they called on those gods, the idols did not respond even though the people were in desperate straits. Today, the Lord also calls us to look at the places and things and sometimes even people that we allow to become idols in our lives, to look at the time and focus and sacrifice that we have devoted to them. He challenges us to remember that depending on these foolish idols of our own making is completely futile and ineffective, that they cannot save us or protect us, that our meaning in life cannot be fulfilled through them in any way, that we must admit the final and clear assessment that they are completely useless and that their influence is only destructive for us.)
