Simple

Competency is our ever present goal.  A commonly repeated guideline when things get tough and learning gets hard is, “Keep it simple”.   The way to keep things simple, however, may not always be that simple to find.  What is simple for one person may not be simple for another.  What seems simple at a distance may not seem simple close up.  Or the first step may be simple but suddenly the path may not be so simple, once you get halfway down the road.

It is more natural for some people to work from complex to simple and for other people it is more natural to work from simple to complex.  In the world today there is a notion that all complexity can, in fact, be reduced to digital simplicity.  Can the universe itself be entirely represented digitally and digitally reproduced to the last bit?  Or is there a complexity in the nature of certain relationships that is ever new and living and that can never be completely known, only learned?  Is there a simplicity that in the end is not found in reductionism but in creativity?

Why did G-d, the G-d of the whole Creation, chose to be the G-d of one nation?

This is the question that one must begin to understand in order to understand the Good News of the Kingdom of G-d.
These verses in Deuteronomy 32 and the verses in Zephaniah 3 and those elsewhere that reflect these verses in Deuteronomy, portray G-d as bringing a demonstration of mercy out of a demonstration of justice, a demonstration of His justified anger. This demonstration of anger and justice and forgiveness and mercy is all directed toward Adam corporately, toward Humanity as one creature of G-d. In order to set a stage for this demonstration, G-d set one family, one corporate segment of Humanity, apart in order to be able to demonstrate His purpose of mercy toward Adam through that family at the same time as His wrath was being displayed toward Adam as a whole, through His curse upon Adam in response to Adam’s rebellion. Insomuch as this family, whom God called in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and named Israel, was a segment of Adam the wrath of G-d would be demonstrated in relation to them as well, but insomuch as they were set apart for the ultimate purpose of G-d, which was mercy and not strict justice, redemption and salvation would be demonstrated through them.