Subject: Obeying God's Word

Deuteronomy 30:15-16
“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Subject:  Obeying God's Word

Throughout Scripture we are given the above formula.   We are told over and over that obedience to God's Word produces life and good and disobedience to God's Word produces death and evil.   We can't get around it.   That doesn't mean all will be good, because God's Word does say that believers will suffer.   We are to obey God's Word in that suffering and rejoice (James 1).   However, we seldom take this literally.    This isn't just our spiritual health, meaning if we obey we will be saved from hell.  The very health of our body is also at stake.   Moses tells them that disobedience has real practical consequences in the land and in their lives.   Obedience to God's Word will bring us in favor with God and our bodies will rejoice in health as we walk in His way.   The world around us will be a different place in our minds and thoughts as we see it through God's Word.   God's Word, in our lives, changes our lives.