Deuteronomy 5:33a Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, (The Lord's commandments are not mere suggestions, not just good ideas, not just wishful thoughts. They are the very foundation by which we walk in unbroken relationship with Him. He reveals His high standards to us to show us how much we need Him, how much we need His grace, and how far short we fall in trying to fulfill His Law to show us that, without His grace, we cannot be good enough, strive hard enough, be strong enough to fulfill that to which He calls us. First He gave us the Law so we could see His righteous standards clearly and the absolute impossibility of our being fully obedient to Him. Then He unfolded the second part of the revelation about His law and about our obedience to Him. Through His grace and mercy toward us and on our behalf, He provided His Own Son Jesus Christ Who Himself declares us righteous through His finished work on the cross. Now through Christ and only through Him, the Lord has offered us His Own righteousness, a righteousness that we could never attain. The next phase of God's revelation to us about obedience to Him is His gift of Holy Spirit Who abides in us to quicken us, to strengthen us, to enable us, to mature us, so we can measure up to and be victorious in all that the Lord demands of us.)
