Obedience Commanded (March 15)

...by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you...

...Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up...

Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name...

Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you...

And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.  Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction.  Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.

He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
                             From Deuteronomy 6,7,& 8 NIV

God commands obedience.  Let us review from the NIV the first 3 commandments.

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.  You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

God gives the law again to Israel.  His desire is obedience.

Thoughts

How do you show your thankfulness that our righteousness is not based on keeping the law, but rather based on the work of Christ?

What kind of difference to you does it mean to be a treasured possession of God?  His temple?

How do you keep on guard against idols?

Pray for a singlemindedness of service to Him.

In Chirst,


David