Careful To Keep That Love

For if you are careful to keep this entire commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cling to Him, then Yahweh will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. Deuteronomy 11:22-23

Canaan, the land of conflict, the land promised by God to Abraham. In between Abraham and this moment in our verses today came centuries of adventures for Israel including famines, slavery in Egypt, and some wilderness. Now the time had come for them to enter the promised land, but some nations had settled there in that land of Canaan. The Lord stood ready to give them good help, but there was just one thing He wanted from them: to keep His entire commandment. Woof! Sounds like a big task right there in and of itself! The Lord in His mercy gave to them that starting point though, love the Lord your God. It seems to us many years later that the walking in His ways will follow quite well if Israel, and we also, can get that first one down. Jesus named it the greatest commandment with another like it, and both were to be careful to keep that love.

Does the path of the Way seem daunting? Remember to carefully keep the love of God first!

Bucky