Deuteronomy 6:3

Deuteronomy 6:3

"Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey."

 

The command 'hear' is a frequent one in the OT.  It is a command that tells us to 'listen, pay attention, stop what you are doing and focus your attention here, now!"

 

'Be careful' is also common.  Again, the focus is on 'paying attention, focusing on the matter at hand.'

 

And God gives a promise to go with his call to our hearts: 'that it may go well with you' and 'that you may multiply greatly'.   God does not give us idle commands: He gives us commands because in obeying them we will have blessing.

 

Notice what is next: 'as the Lord...has promised you.'  Moses indicates that the 'hearing' and the 'being careful' are requisites, they are conditions for recieving the promises that God had already given.  The promises of God are given in such a way that we need to 'put ourselves into position' to receive those promises.  (Now, the grace upon grace is that God makes us desiring and able to do those conditions to receive those promises (Phil 2:14-15).

 

But the promises and the conditions are there.  Study them, know them, live them: then your life will be right with God.

 

Praise You Father for giving us great and precious promises.

Praise You Son for securing those promises.

Praise You Spirit for giving us the desire and the ability to live by those promises.

 

Trusting the promises along with you,

Pastor Greg