What does God expect from our lives? Is He expecting some offerings? Follow some rituals? Or repeat some sacred words? What is that God expecting from the lives of His chosen ones? The question is directly answered by Moses in today's reading from Deuteronomy 10:12-13. In these verses we get a nutshell of God’s expectation of His people - the chosen ones. God has done everything for His people, Israel and in turn God expects them to:

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• To fear the Lord

• To walk in His ways

• To love Him

• To serve Him

• To keep His commandments and statutes

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This is not only applicable to  the old Israel during their wilderness journey, but God expects the same from us too. The only difference is that instead of writing the Law on stone tablets, God has written it in our hearts. The following verses explain what God has done. “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.” (Ezekiel 36:25-27) - This prophecy in Ezekiel was fulfilled through the coming of Christ who brougt us into a New Covenant with Him. This was repeated by the writer of Hebrews: “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (Heb.8:10). 

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So today we do not need any external source or object to obey God, but He has come to dwell within us through His Spirit. As we surrender ourselves, He will lead us through His Spirit in His ways – to fear, love, and serve Him and to obey His commandments. As it is said in Deu. 10:16, a circumcision of the heart is required for us even today- a new birth through the Holy Spirit ensures a new heart that is willing to obey God’s laws and please Him.

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This day let us willingly submit our lives into the very hands that made the universe, for our own good- that we may love and serve Him all the days of our life.

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Prayer:

"Dear Father I come to you willfully surrendering my life.

Please lead me in the way that is pleasing in Your sight."

Amen