10th April 2025

What God Requires of Us

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you,

but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him,

to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

 Deuteronomy 10:12 

Today's Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 10:12-13.

What does the Lord require from each of us?

(1). “Fear the Lord your God.” To fear God is to hold Him in the highest reverence. Recognize the power and omnipotence of God. Stand in awe of Him. Submit to Him and to His rulership in all of life.

(2). “Walk in all His ways.” This implies knowing God and seeking to follow His guidance in all areas of life. Walk implies being in step with, as in a disciplined and precisioned marching. We must know God’s ways before we can walk in them.

(3) “Love Him.” Unconditional allegiance to God is the adoration He requires from His followers. Such love seeks to please the Beloved. Christian love has God for its primary object and expresses itself in explicit obedience to God’s commands.

(4). “Serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” To serve implies complete allegiance to Him; As a soldier pledged to his country or a slave to his master. But in serving God, His subjects choose willingly to enter into the joy of allegiance to Him, “with heart and soul” indicates the whole of mind and will, the seat of the emotions and the spirit.

(5). “To observe the Lord’s commands.” Moses had made two trips up the mountain to receive the commandments from God. They were written on tablets of stone that would travel with the people. They were important and worthy of being followed. The commands of God have been recorded and passed down to us for our benefit, orderly living, and just treatment of others. When we fear the Lord, walk in His ways, love Him and serve Him, it becomes much easier to live by God’s commands. Through the Spirit of God, Moses arranged these instructions to the people in the right order.

Let us each pray that we can remember and practice these requirements for living the good life, a life devoted fully to God.

Prayer: My God and Father, I want to continue growing in my obedience. faith and love until the day when the Lord Jesus, who has perfectly fulfilled the law for me, perfectly fulfils the law in me. In His name, I pray. Amen.