Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 / Matthew 5:17-19
Children often have some resistance with the things that we ask them to do.
Things like washing their hands before meals, brushing their teeth, going to bed early, etc.
They don't seem to be convinced that what we tell them is really good for them.
But how different are we from children when it comes to keeping God's law?
Do we really understand what it means when Moses said in the 1st reading: Observe them, that you may have life.
Yet we know that whenever God's law is not kept, problems arise and tragedies happen.
Whatever examples of problems to tragedies that we can think of, it can be certain that greed and injustice have a part in it.
It is just another case of God's law not being kept.
That was why Moses added: Tell it to your children, and your children's children.
And Jesus said in the gospel: I have come not to abolish but to complete the Law.
God's law is our life-line. Jesus is not only Law-giver. He is also the Life-giver.
In keeping the Law of God, we will have life.