Deuteronomy 11:16-32
"Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul" (v. 18). ". . . let my words remain in you . . ." is the charge which the Lord Jesus left us in parting. If it is so, then we will know how to pray (John 15:7), how to speak of Him (Psalms 45:1; Matthew 12:34), how to flee from evil (Psalms 119:11). Every moment of every day we will be occupied with these words and with the One who spoke them. Our conversations, our deeds and our walk will all bear their mark. People will be able to read in our faces the happiness that they provide. In our home, in our work, in our comings and goings we will adorn in all things "the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus 2:10).
Then comes the conclusion to all these exhortations to obedience: "Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse" (v. 26). Two pathways open up in front of each of us. One is the narrow pathway of obedience to the Lord, the other is the wide road of our own will. However God has placed signposts at this junction. The way of obedience leads to blessing; the other, that of self-will, to a curse. Which will you choose and follow?