His command is not beyond our reach

Alright. This might be carrying over from a conversation I had with a few people last night, but it is certainly still on my heart. It will probably be quick, but I feel like it's important.

In this life, you will have a million different voices telling you which way to go. Which path is the best to travel, which things are the best to meditate on, which aspects of this Christian life are most important, which Scriptures are worth dividing over. Many of these different voices will come from within the Church, which can be confusing if our eyes are not fixed on Christ, on the essentials of walking with Him.

So as all these voices fight for your devotion, I think I'll simply relay to you what Moses said to the Israelites right before he dies, right before they head into the Promised Land. Now, wouldn't you figure that if Moses' earthly life is about to end, whatever advice he gives the Israelites is probably pretty important? Just read, and answer that question for yourself...

"...The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 

Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."  [Deuteronomy 30:9-20 NIV]

As I've read Scripture, it seems to me that God speaks so much more highly of loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength than of  having a million answers to the most challenging theologies.

Sit at His feet.
Meditate on His word.
Treasure up in your heart all the things He shows you.
And LOVE Him. With everything you've got.

"One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 'Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?' Jesus replied: '"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: "Love your neighbor as yourself." All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'"  [Matthew 22:35-40]