January 8, 2024

Passage Read: Deuteronomy 24-27
Meditation Verse: 26:17

Thought

So basically what it means to declare the Lord to be my God is that I walk in all His ways. I submit myself fully to His command and leadership. If I do not completely submit myself to all His commands, then I am not truly taking Him as my God, but only aligning myself with Him so that I can still retain control over what I choose to do; I retain autonomy to agree with the commands I choose and reject the ones I don't like. But to take the Lord as my God means giving up all autonomy and submitting myself fully to Him.

Application

I want God to be my God, but it is a hard thing to give up all autonomy. But do I really know better than Him in anything? It is the wisest thing to surrender completely to Him and His Word. There are commands He Himself has set aside, which I therefore do not need to worry about, but I do want to understand His heart in giving those commands in the first place. But any command He has not set aside, these I must be fully willing and ready to obey.