Deuteronomy 11:1 Love the Lord your God and keep His requirements, His decrees, His laws and His commands always. (Again and again, the Lord calls us to obedience because He knows how resistant we are to conforming our will to Him.
When He demands us to keep His laws,
the word in the Hebrew means to attend to, preserve, watch over,
and to guard His call and His ways with a hedge of thorns that will make protection even more powerful and encroachment against His ways even more difficult.
He has given us His charge, the obligations we have toward Him; His statues, the fixed order and patterns of His reign; His judgments, the right determinations He has laid out; His ordinances, the expectations and terms of His rule; and His commandments, the laws by which He governs.
He calls us into complete submission to Him, not just a half-hearted, off-handed, outward compliance.
He demands complete surrender to Him today.
And He enjoins us to vigilantly guard our walk with Him so that nothing encroaches on our love for and obedience to Him. Jesus said it best, that loving God is the greatest commandment. And if we love Him, we, simply and plainly, have to obey Him. Nothing else matches those purposes in life.)
