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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Deuteronomy 29-31.

Moses makes several points in this passage which I want to bring up.  The first one that strikes me every time I read this passage is not the first one in the passage.  Today we are given a choice, a choice between life and death.  This choice is not a once and done choice.  Rather it is a choice we must make every day.  Will we choose life and do God’s will?  Or will we reject God’s will and choose death?  One day the choice we make will be final, but until then, if we made the wrong choice yesterday, we can always repent and make the right choice today.  Of course, whichever choice we make today will make it easier to make that choice again tomorrow and harder to make the other.  So, it is important to make the right choice each and every day.

I was going to work my way backwards from that to the other point, but as I began to write the next section I realized how what I wanted to write about the other points did not tie together that way.  When we have made the wrong choice time and again so that we are suffering the curses which come from rejecting God’s will, if we turn back to God and strive once more to do His will He will bring us back to Him.  He will change and cleanse our hearts.  It will not be hard to know His will, nor will it be hard to do His will.  If we truly desire to return to Him, He will write His commands on our hearts.  In fact, He has already done so.  When we make the wrong choice and reject God’s will we obscure part of what He has written on our hearts.  Each time we reject God’s will we make it even harder for us to read what He has written there.  However, each time we look at what can still be seen, and there will always be a little bit of what God has written visible to us if we look for it, and choose to follow His will God will wipe some of that obscuring muck away.  That is the beauty of what God offers us through Jesus.  When we fully accept Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins, it is like God has turned a power washer on our hearts.  Of course, it hurts when He starts to wash away some of that ingrained sin and we sometimes try to shelter ourselves from the cleaning.  But we have to open ourselves up to that pain in order to experience the healing which can only happen once God has cleaned all of that gunk out of our lives.