The word is very near

But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. – Deuteronomy 30v14

It only makes sense, doesn’t it, that if there is a God who made us and cares for us that He would also communicate with us?

Anyone who has ever had or worked with children knows the classic excuse for not doing as instructed. ‘Why didn’t you come when I called you?’ The classic response – ‘I didn’t hear you!’

Now sometimes that might be true, and sometimes it might be true only because the child was not listening, or even practicing ‘selective hearing.’

Sadly, we might also use that same excuse when it comes to following and obeying God. God would not let Israel use that excuse. He told them not to say that they had to wait for His instructions, but that His instructions were right there before them and all the had to do was to just ‘do it.’

If God could tell Israel that how much more could He say that to us? We have His word with us always. We have Bibles on our desks, by our bedside, in our cars, on our computers, and even on our phones. We have preaching and teaching more available than it has ever been.

His word is indeed very near – we have no excuse. Now we have to ‘do it.’