What a great passage to keep in your heart! Here, Moses is telling the people why it is important to follow God's laws. For one, it brings life. We know from Romans that the price for sin is death - well, death is simply the absence of life. Everytime we sin, we lose life. It's a deep concept and one I am not going explicate on any further.
The second, and the one I want to look at, tells why God gave such strict rules and laws to follow: it was to separate the people from everyone else. God wanted it so that when people saw the Israelites, they could see God. They would see that something was different about them, and therefore they would believe on God because God would be the only one that could provide that kind of power over the flesh. Nothing has changed! God wants to the same thing for His people - Christians - today! He wants it so that when people look at us, they see Him. When people look at us, they should see something different - something more! - and should want it. This is why some of the laws may seem redundant, stupid, or downright outrageous, but God wanted it to be known that He was in control and that His people were going to be different than the rest of the world!
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