18 You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead. 19Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today; 28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.
Follow other gods – if you do this you will be cursed. Turn away from what you have been commanded, and you will follow other gods… So obviously a person who willfully sins is someone who has turned away from God and is following after their own wants and desires. The problem with this is we all willfully sin everyday… so where does that leave us…
Well the first part of the reading says that if we are following after God then we will put these words on our heart and soul, and we need to write them on our hand, and fix them as an emblem on our forehead. We will teach them to our children and talk about them all the time. How many of us talk about the commandments of God all the time? How many of us actually talk about God at all not at the building in which the congregation we are a part of meets? DO we talk about God outside of our congregation? Other than using His name in vain which is a direct violation of the first commandment. We will talk about God all the time, and teach others and helping them understand what God has called us to. Teaching, not berating. We can not use God’s commandments which are given to us to give us a better life, cause someone else pain and suffering. That is not what the law is for.
God says if you follow after other gods, you will be cursed, and following after other gods, is done through our looking inward and ignoring or making our sins ok and pointing out someone else’s deviation from the law. Do not be hung up in your own self righteousness, but allow God to work through you and His commandments to bring life, not only to you, but to all through talking about what He has given you.
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