God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves.
Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.
God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.
Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.
In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.
In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.