Deuteronomy 5-8
With four chapters in today’s reading, there is quite a lot that we could talk about. But I would be remiss not to focus on the Greatest Commandment, upon which everything else depends:
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:5
Yet what can I say about that? What can I say that has not been said? What can I say that would not fall short? I cannot embellish those words, nor can I fathom them. The best I can do is to point to them and urge us all to sit with them in stillness, to let the LORD convict our hearts and draw us to Himself.
Again, I can’t help but to comment. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. (Deut. 6:4-5) I told most of you this past Sunday at our RTB gathering that this was my conversion verse, as quoted by Jesus in Matthew 22:37-40. Changed my life forever…! And as for John’s post on this verse, “Well said”!