Deuteronomy 24-27: What you know you are to put into practice. I think that is the key to understanding Deuteronomy. Moses had given the law in the earlier books. Now he is telling Israel to put it into practice as they enter the land. He started the book by looking back at where they had come from. He then proceeds to say, and this is where you are and what you need to do, but the day is coming soon when this will be the rule of engagement for life in your new land. Practice what you know to do.

Isn’t that what God says to us as well? Here are the commandments. Here is how life is going to go best for you, but it is up to you to put into practice what you know.

Deuteronomy 26:16″This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice. 18And the Lord has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments, 19and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he promised.”

That promise is not just to Israel, but to us His children who walk in His ways. The choice really is ours as we make God through His Son Jesus the Lord of our lives.