OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS

The Old Testament lessons for this Sunday articulate the completion of God's salvation and encourage the reader to enter God's new world. Deuteronomy 30:15-20 is a call for Israel to choose life in the land over death in the wilderness, while Psalm 119:1-8 provides encouragement for the worshiper, who has left the wilderness and entered the land, to persevere in walking on God's roads in God's world.

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 - "Bond Yourself to God and Choose Life"
Setting. The book of Deuteronomy is a speech by Moses addressed to Israel as they stand on the far side of the Jordan River. These Israelites are the second generation of those who experienced the Exodus. The first generation nearly reached this same point forty years earlier but forfeited the land because they…