Today, I am reading and commenting on  Deuteronomy 5-7.

Today is another one of those days where I know what I want to write, but am not quite sure how to tie it all together.  After recounting the Ten Sayings which God had given the Israelites, which we know today as the Ten Commandments, Moses told them to do all of what God had commanded, not turning aside to either the right or the left.  Moses goes on to tell them, and us, to always have God’s commands in our hearts.  We should do whatever we need to do to keep God’s instructions at the forefront of our thoughts, so that we do as God has directed us.  There is an often parodied question which some Christians started making their motto some years back: “What would Jesus do?”  That question is a good starting point, but this passage tells us that it is only the starting point.  We should strive to get to the point where we do not need to ask that question.  Let us seek to meditate on God’s instructions, to make them such a part of our lives that we do not need to ask ourselves that question because we have so thoroughly internalized God’s word that we know, and act, on the answer before we even think to ask the question.  Sometimes it seems like it is hard to remember to do what God desires of us when times are hard, but a study of the Bible and of history tells us that it is even harder to do so when times are good.  Relatively speaking, it is easy to remember that we are reliant on God when times are bad, but extremely hard to remember that we owe all that we have and are to God when things are going well.   Let us strive to put God first in both the bad times and the good times.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.