Giving Credit to the Rock

Deuteronomy 32:25 Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the Lord who did all this.”

As Moses gave his final challenge to his people before passing off the scene, he focused at the beginning of this chapter on The Rock, the Lord who had pulled Jacob (Israel) out of the middle of nowhere and made him into a great nation. It is well worth the read to see everything he has to say about The Rock. Moses then turns again to what will happen when they turn their backs on The Rock.  The Lord would just let them cease to exist if it were not one thing: He does not want pagan nations to think they are the all-powerful ones who made it happen.  The "credit" is due only to The Rock, the Almighty Lord over all. May we always give credit to where it is due: God and God alone.