Choose the Law and Life

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Love Fulfills the Law

Deuteronomy 11:13-21  The Message

^13-15 From now on if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am commanding you today, love God, your God, and serve him with everything you have within you, he’ll take charge of sending the rain at the right time, both autumn and spring rains, so that you’ll be able to harvest your grain, your grapes, your olives. He’ll make sure there’s plenty of grass for your animals. You’ll have plenty to eat.
^16-17 But be vigilant, lest you be seduced away and end up serving and worshiping other gods and God erupts in anger and shuts down Heaven so there’s no rain and nothing grows in the fields, and in no time at all you’re starved out—not a trace of you left on the good land that God is giving you.
^18-21 Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning until you fall into bed at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities so that you’ll live a long time, and your children with you, on the soil that God promised to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth.

For Reflection

Our God of Love expects only one thing.  God expects that we will respond to God's love by living lives full of God's love.  God will take care of our needs and we, through God will prosper in the hollow of God's hands.  When times or good, remember God.

Pray

that you will live the life God intended for you.  Pray that you will never be seduced into worship of other gods.  Pray for the wisdom to follow the Holy Spirit.