One thing I love about Deuteronomy is the way it expresses the heart of God. In Exodus, the law is much more concisely communicated but here in Deuteronomy it is filled out with impassioned pleas from God. That expresses what the law is all about. Consider this moving plea in 5:29: “Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!” Our God pleads with us here to listen to his words for our own sake and the sake of our children. God has given us the freedom to make the wrong choices in the hope that we would freely choose the right way. He wants us to walk with him and he wants us to choose this freely. God is grieved though when we turn away and forego what he offers. It grieves him because there is so much potential that goes to waste. He has created you to live a full and fruitful life and he is jealous for all that he has put in you. He does not want to see one bit of you wasted. He does not want to see you miss out on the wonderful things he has in store for you. And most of all he does not want you to wander lost and alone through life and into eternity without him. So, commit yourself again to God today. Commit yourself to obedience, for his word is designed to lead you to walk in truth and life with him. Ask him to take hold of you and lead you forward. Give yourself no other option. Let it be this and nothing else.
Do what I have suggested here.
Read Deuteronomy 5
