Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we drop back in on Moses parting words to the Israelites before his death

and he starts with a command we've heard often but we've never really drilled down

on it. God has commanded us to love him. The word love here indicates

emotion. It's action adjacent but it's emotion specific. How do you command a

feeling?

Jen Wilkin says,

The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.

And I'm guessing that by fixing your eyes on his word daily,

by looking for him in scripture instead of for yourself

that you love him more now than you did 75 days ago. The more we take our eyes off

ourselves and get to know this infinitely lovable God, the more we will love him.

Moses speaks specifically to the adults among the crowd who were alive even when the exodus happened,

and he reminds them again to remember who God is and what

he has done for them.

In 1116, he tells them to pay attention to their hearts.

There are things around them that will entice them to worship them and they have to be vigilant

to not be let astray by these new shiny things.

If they stay faithful to God, no nation will overtake them. God has already proven that he can defeat bigger armies.

There's an interesting image at the end of Chapter 11.

He tells them to choose between blessing and cursing,

represented by two different mountains, Mount

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