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A Blueprint for Living
In this episode, we reflect on Deuteronomy 10:12-13 to understand what God requires from us. Alt… (visit YouTube for more)
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Today we’re meditating on a verse that tells us what God asked of the Israelites. It’s very relevant today.
Deuteronomy chapter 10, verses 12 to 13. And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I’m commanding you today for your good.
Although this was a message to the people of the Old Covenant and we now live under the New Covenant, this still tells us about the character of God and what it is that he wants from us, his children. The first thing is that he wants us to fear him, but not that we’re terrified of him; that we’re giving him reverence-fear, that we’re looking to him with awe and respect as the maker of the universe and the lover of our souls.
He wants us to walk in all his ways. There are many examples and we look first at the character and the person of Christ and all that he did.
He wants us to love him, he puts the Holy Spirit in us to grow his Fruit, the first aspect of which is love. He gives us the Holy Spirit in order that we can love him.
He wants us to serve him with all our heart and soul. And he draws that service out of us, by the love that he shows for us and the love that he puts in us.
And he wants us to keep his commandments and this is not a legalistic thing. In the Bible he tells us of his moral nature. And the greatest commands are to love God, and to love people, to love our neighbours as ourselves. It is not being legalistic to offer love to everyone.
And this passage concludes by saying why we should do this. Not only because it’s right, but because it’s good for us. It’s good for everyone.
If we are obedient children of our God who love him, we will do these things and it will come naturally to us as the Holy Spirit develops the character of Christ in us.
I commend this to you as an excellent pattern for living. Maybe meditate on it a bit longer. You’ll find the verse in the description.
