What is the meaning of Deuteronomy 32:6? Is this how you repay the LORD? Deuteronomy 32 opens with Moses singing a warning and a plea. In this first question, God confronts Israel’s ingratitude. • The word “repay” highlights covenant reciprocity: the Lord rescued, provided, protected; Israel should answer with faith and obedience (Deuteronomy 8:11-14, Malachi 1:6). • Romans 2:4 reminds us that “God’s kindness leads you to repentance.” Grace calls for grateful loyalty, not rebellion. • Every believer today can survey God’s mercies in Christ and ask, “Am I responding with wholehearted devotion or casual neglect?” O foolish and senseless people? Here God names the spiritual dullness behind the ingratitude. • “Foolish” describes willful moral blindness, not lack of intelligence (Psalm 14:1; Jeremiah 4:22). • “Senseless” pictures people without discernment, unable to connect cause and effect—mercy received ought to birth love returned. • The New Testament echoes this when Jesus rebukes the Emmaus travelers: “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe” (Luke 24:25). A hard heart always precedes drifting from God. Is He not your Father and Creator? The antidote to folly is remembering identity and origin. • Isaiah 64:8 affirms, “O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter.” • Malachi 2:10 challenges covenant unfaithfulness with the same logic: “Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?” • Jesus teaches us to pray, “Our Father in heaven” (Matthew 6:9). Knowing God as Father inspires trust and obedience, not rebellion. Has He not made you and established you? The Lord’s creative power has both a beginning and an ongoing aspect. • Job 10:8 declares, “Your hands shaped me and made me.” God’s craftsmanship is personal. • Psalm 139:13-16 describes His intimate forming in the womb. • To “establish” means He sets His people in a secure place (Psalm 40:2). Colossians 1:16-17 says all things hold together in Christ; He not only creates but keeps. • Israel’s national existence—deliverance from Egypt, conquest of Canaan—proves God’s establishing hand. Forgetting that foundation leads to collapse. summary Deuteronomy 32:6 exposes the insanity of ingratitude. God rescued, fathered, crafted, and secured His people, yet they repaid Him with disobedience. The verse calls every generation to remember the Father-Creator who both makes and sustains, and to respond with intelligent, heartfelt loyalty rather than foolish neglect. |
    |