Today, I am reading and commenting on  Deuteronomy 27-28.

Moses told the Israelites that if they obeyed God they would be blessed, if they did not obey God they would be cursed.  The blessings, or curse, would come upon them in the city and in the country.  They would happen when they came in and when they went out.  If we obey God and act as He desires, the land we live in will be verdant and bountiful.  On the other hand if we disobey Him and act counter to His desires, the land we live in will suffer drought and blight.  Obeying God leads to good health and to prosperity, disobeying God leads to poverty and disease.  The ideas of these blessings and curses as laid out here apply to groups of people, not so much to individuals.  Although the principle applies to individuals as well.  Individuals who seek to follow God’s will, will be blessed.  Those who refuse to do God’s will, will be cursed.  While this sounds like God judging people, which He does, it is actually about natural consequences.  Actions have consequences.  The actions which God commands have positive outcomes, actions which violate God’s commands have negative outcomes. God gives us the commands which He gives us because doing the good things He commands have positive consequence while doing the things He commands us not to do have negative consequences.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.