Deuteronomy 10: Over and Over and Over Again

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. Yet the LORD set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff–necked any longer. For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. Deut. 10:12-17 NIV

He chose us, the God of heaven and earth, the God of the Ages, the Beginning and the End, he chose us and requires so little of us, yet we wander off on our own over and over again.  We choose alien gods, gods of clay, wood, hay and stubble, thinking that they can provide for our needs, but they fail, over and over again.  We wonder why our world keeps falling apart, over and over again.  All the while, God, our God, the one who has called us by name, stands patiently by, waiting for us to come to our senses and acknowledge him.  Acknowledge that without him, we are nothing.  He waits for us.  Over and over again, he stretches out his arms to us and we ignore him.  We ignore the God who owns the highest heavens and this puny earth that we call home.  We cast our eyes on other sources while he waits, over and over and over again.