God wants us to stay focused on the things that really matter in our spiritual journey of life. There are many specific things, morally and ethically, that are clearly spelled out for us in His word. He doesn\u2019t leave us guessing what things are necessary for us to do in order to have a personal relationship with Him. He has carefully given us a written record by the Holy Spirit, through more than 40 human authors, over more than 1300 years.<\/p>\n
It is not too simplistic to think of the Bible as the owner\u2019s manual of a new car. A manual supplied by the creator of the vehicle, recording the proper maintenance needed. Most modern cars for example are capable of more than 100,000 miles; however, it’s possible to drive it and completely ignore the maintenance schedule. It\u2019s also possible to abuse the vehicle by using it for things the manufacturer never intended it to be used for. If someone was foolish enough, they could take a new car and use it to pull a plow back and forth over a rough, dusty field; but the car wouldn’t perform nearly as well as a tractor designed for plowing. While the car might be able to complete the job, given enough time and patience by the driver, the vehicle, in the long run, would continually break down. It would not go nearly as far as the engineers who designed it intended for it to go.<\/p>\n
We also have an owner\u2019s manual telling us how well we can perform, and how to keep our soul, spirit, and physical bodies maintained. If we follow our Creator\u2019s manual, we will have less breakdowns<\/em> and we\u2019ll be able to go the distance He designed us to go. There are many things God has not revealed to us about Himself and His creation. There are many things He has not revealed to us about eternity past and future. But the things that are required, the things we need to know, He has faithfully given us, and in a form no one can complain is too complicated or difficult to follow. Salvation is a gift He offers to every person. We must only follow His simple directions to live well and travel on into eternity with Him.<\/p>\n \u201cLORD, we ask for You to lead us along the road of life this day, in Jesus\u2019 name.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n =============================================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deuteronomy 29 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1<\/sup>\u00a0These\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>the words of the covenant, which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2<\/sup>\u00a0And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the\u00a0LORD\u00a0did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0Yet the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I\u00a0am\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10<\/sup> Ye stand this day all of you before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers,\u00a0with\u00a0<\/em>all the men of Israel,\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God, and into his oath, which the\u00a0LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:\u00a0 13<\/sup>\u00a0That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;\u00a015<\/sup>\u00a0But with\u00a0him\u00a0<\/em>that standeth here with us this day before the\u00a0LORDour God, and also with\u00a0him\u00a0<\/em>that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not here with us this day:\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which\u00a0were<\/em>among them:)\u00a0 18<\/sup>\u00a0Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God, to go\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;\u00a0\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:\u00a0\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0will not spare him, but then the anger of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the\u00a0LORD\u00a0shall blot out his name from under heaven.\u00a021<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:\u00a0\u00a022<\/sup>\u00a0So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0hath laid upon it;\u00a0\u00a023<\/sup>\u00a0And that\u00a0<\/em>the whole land thereof\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>brimstone, and salt, and\u00a0<\/em>burning,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:\u00a024<\/sup>\u00a0Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the\u00a0LORD\u00a0done thus unto this land? what\u00a0meaneth\u00a0<\/em>the heat of this great anger?\u00a025<\/sup>\u00a0Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:\u00a026<\/sup>\u00a0For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and\u00a0whom\u00a0<\/em>he had not given unto them:\u00a0\u00a027<\/sup>\u00a0And the anger of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:\u00a028<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as\u00a0it is\u00a0<\/em>this day.\u00a029<\/sup>\u00a0The secret\u00a0things belong\u00a0<\/em>unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God: but those things which are\u00a0<\/em>revealed\u00a0belong\u00a0<\/em>unto us and to our children for ever, that\u00a0we\u00a0<\/em>may do all the words of this law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God wants us to stay focused on the things that really matter in our spiritual journey of life. 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