Our Tendency to Self-Righteousness...

Deuteronomy 9:6-7 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people. Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. In this chapter Moses begins a review of Israel's history and how they got from Egypt to the promised land. Rather than being marked by grateful obedience, they had been a stubborn, rebellious, stiff-necked people. They did not deserve the promised land and the blessings it would bring. We are often the same way, especially in this nation of blessings. God had chosen to have Israel drive out the pagan peoples not because Israel was so good, but because the others were so bad. We know God has blessed us, but we begin to believe that we deserve it. It is nothing about us; it is everything about God and His grace, mercy, love and forgiveness. May we beware our own tendency to self-righteousness today. May we not "re-write" history into how wonderful we are, instead of how great God is.