{"id":6060,"date":"2023-03-17T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:23:14","slug":"deuteronomy-3016-in-that-i-command-you-today-to-love-the-lord-your-god-to-walk-in-his-ways-and-to-keep-his-commandments-his-statutes-and-his-judgments-that-you-may-live-and-multiply-and-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=6060","title":{"rendered":"Deuteronomy 30:16: “in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a beautiful scripture that summarizes what it means to live a life with God here on planet earth. It\u2019s a simple formula: love + walk + keep = bless. It starts with the word love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Love:<\/strong> We are to love the LORD our God. Love is a choice, but we can’t love someone very well if we don’t know them. The better we know God the easier it is to love Him since He is perfectly good in character. When we spend time seeking Him, spending time with Him, enjoying His presence, we fall more in love with Him.<\/p>\n

Walk:<\/strong> We are to “walk in His<\/em> ways,” not our own. His way is one that is others-centered<\/em>. The world teaches us to be self-centered, and much of modern advertising points us back to ourselves and what we need<\/em>. God’s way points us toward others, so we can watch carefully for the needs of our neighbors and do what we can to help lighten their loads.<\/p>\n

Keep:<\/strong> We are to keep His commandments to love God and to love our neighbor. The more time we spend in His word the more we come to understand what His commandments are and what it means to love Him and our neighbor.<\/p>\n

Bless:<\/strong> The result of living life God’s way is that He can then \u201cbless you in the land.\u201d He desires to bless our lives so that we can then be a blessing to others. We receive His blessings as a result of living a life of love, walking in His way, and keeping His word. God’s blessings are simply the natural outcome of His being in our hearts as we walk the road of life, blessing others.<\/p>\n

“LORD, we desire to live in the center of Your will for us this day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Deuteronomy 30 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call\u00a0them\u00a0<\/em>to mind among all the nations, whither the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God hath driven thee,\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And shalt return unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0That then the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God hath scattered thee.\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0If\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>of thine be driven out unto the outmost\u00a0parts\u00a0<\/em>of heaven, from thence will the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:\u00a05<\/sup>And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORDthy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the\u00a0LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the\u00a0LORD\u00a0will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>if thou turn unto the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 11<\/sup> For this commandment which I command thee this day, it\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not hidden from thee, neither\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>it far off. 12<\/sup>\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0Neither\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0But the word\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15<\/sup>\u00a0See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;\u00a016<\/sup>\u00a0In that I command thee this day to love the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.\u00a017<\/sup>\u00a0But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;\u00a018<\/sup>\u00a0I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish,\u00a0and that<\/em> ye shall not prolong\u00a0your\u00a0<\/em>days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.\u00a019<\/sup>\u00a0I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:\u00a020<\/sup>\u00a0That thou mayest love the\u00a0LORD\u00a0thy God,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the\u00a0LORD\u00a0sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a beautiful scripture that summarizes what it means to live a life with God here on planet earth. It\u2019s a simple formula: love + walk + keep = bless. It starts with the word love. Love: We are to love the LORD our God. Love is a choice, but we can’t love someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16037,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}