The Law as Obedient Love

The Inescapable God
God Reveals Deuteronomy 30:1-10 (The Message)
 ^1-5 Here's what will happen. While you're out among the nations where God has dispersed you and the blessings and curses come in just the way I have set them before you, and you and your children take them seriously and come back to God, your God, and obey him with your whole heart and soul according to everything that I command you today, God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he'll have compassion on you; he'll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered. No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life and make you more numerous than your ancestors.  ^6-7 God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children's hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.
 ^8-9 And you will make a new start, listening obediently to God, keeping all his commandments that I'm commanding you today. God, your God, will outdo himself in making things go well for you: you'll have babies, get calves, grow crops, and enjoy an all-around good life. Yes, God will start enjoying you again, making things go well for you just as he enjoyed doing it for your ancestors.
 ¹⁰ But only if you listen obediently to God, your God, and keep the commandments and regulations written in this Book of Revelation. Nothing halfhearted here; you must return to God, your God, totally, heart and soul, holding nothing back.

For Reflection I have recently acquired a more intimate knowledge of God's work with those who have strayed.  Battered women, homeless, substance abuse and other maladies like poverty and families torn in bitter divorces are lead to the saving grace of God through church centered multi-denominational mission programs. Such experience is evidence that all one has to do is ask and salvation will be given.  The road to salvation is not always an easy one, but it is rewarding.  None of us can avoid the callused scars brought on by living out our humanity. But we all can receive the soothing salve of God's love.

Pray
That you will take the time to listen to God.  Pray for those who need to find a stable set of love rules as those by which God would have us live. Pray that God will use you to to help others live righteous lives. God restores all who ask and repent.