Today's Passage: Deuteronomy 10-12
12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
So much is packed into this one sentence! It sums up what the Lord has asked of us and tells us why: fear and love the Lord for your own good. Dictionary.com defined this fear as "reverential awe." I can remember that in my Sunday School classes as a child, the teachers would compare God to a parent when the passage talked about "fearing" God. They would talk about how we wanted to obey our parents because we feared them or had respect for them and recognized their authority. How much more should we fear and love God!
The progression laid out in this sentence challenges the reader to consider the motivation behind his service to the Lord. I know that all too often in my life, service can become obligatory or just another item to be checked off of a to-do list. How much more meaningful and powerful would that service be if it was ALWAYS done with ALL my heart and ALL my soul? Doesn't God deserve my VERY best EVERY time? How might my attitude improve if it was always done as an overflow of my love for Him? After all, what does the LORD our God ask of us but this?
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