This is one of my most favorite chapters in the Bible, from one of my most favorite books. For it was in reading Deuteronomy that my eyes opened; when I actually saw life as I know it; not just a story from a distant land and a people long dead! God revealed to me, "this is where we live!"
I had been taught about the blessings of God, and how to confess them for me and mine, but had never been shown how the curses of God come into play in our lives through disobedience.
In reading about the curses in Deuteronomy 28, I saw my life and the lives of those I love! I saw how the pain and suffering, the diseases, the lack in provision was directly related to my disobedience to The Word! We confessed the blessings hoping and praying we would be blessed, but we could not be blessed by God because of our sin!
We like the children of Israel were stiffnecked and rebellious and had turned away from God. We walk in unbelief, fear, unforgiveness, bitterness, judging, grumbling and complaining, gossiping; worshiping a god made in our own image!
I saw that God is true to His Word!
Then I read in chapter 30:
“But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 30:14-16 KJV
I saw that it is our choices; our decisions that cause us to be blessed or cursed. We can have The Word in our heart and in our mouth, but it must be put into practice! We must "do it!" But it has been so long since we have done it, we are deceived, because "the book of The Law has been lost in the (today's) church! (2Kings 22:8)
We don't read our Bible, it is covered in dust; basically it is lost in plain sight! We should be ripping our clothes and covering ourselves in ashes in repentance, but we think we are "okay!" The very elect are deceived, as in Mark 13:22.
And what do we have to do to fulfill The Law? Love! It's so simple, it's hard! Love does no wrong!
“And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:29-31 KJV
Love walks in forgiveness! Love does not consider a wrong or hold a grudge! Love puts everyone before self! Love climbs up on the cross and dies to self!
And back to Deuteronomy 30:
“And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” Deuteronomy 30:2, 9-10 KJV
All we have to do is "turn back" and "forgive" to be forgiven! “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” Matthew 6:14-15 KJV
He is there ready and waiting for us!
Ask God to reveal to you the sins you are holding onto, in your heart, and then confess and repent when He does! And He will!!!!
For there will come a day, when it will be too late to repent! So repent while there is still time!
Turn back and truly see the Blessings of God!
Even so - MARANATHA!
From 11/4/15
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