By Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - Moses reminded the Jews how they had been blessed by God, “Remember how for forty years now the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert…He fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers…He brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery…He guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its serpents and scorpions.”... They were blessed by God but they did not live the blessed life that God demanded and for which He had set them free from bondage in Egypt. ...