Deuteronomy 4:23a Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that He made with you; (Moses' warning to God's people in the Hebrew is much more than simply not to forget His covenant with them. It is a strong, intense exhortation for God's people to take heed and guard against straying from their focus on the covenant God has established with them. The instruction for them here is that they are to fortify their focus on Him and His relationship with them by setting up a protective hedge with thorns that allows nothing to infiltrate it that would distract their attention from remembrance of God's compact with them.. The same warning applies to us. Today our world constantly provides us with a tempting array of enticing and foolish diversions to divert us and our attention from the Lord. Today, we, too, still need to give careful attention and heed to, to jealously guard and protect, the unique relationship to which the Lord has invited us so that we don't lose focus on Him or forget His covenant with us.)
