Don't Add or Subtract

Deut 12:32 Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.

Isn’t this an interesting verse?

Consider this. 

Perhaps you feel prompted to speak a word of encouragement to a friend, and you speak it.  Then your mind starts wandering and you then start accusing your friend or reprimanding her for getting herself into trouble, in the first place.  That’s “adding to” what God told you to speak.  Just speak what He says, and be done.  Don’t use your own fillers to expand the message.

Perhaps you feel prompted to give a certain amount to a friend in need and then you only decide to give half of it, instead of obeying with the full amount.  Of course, God will forgive you, but be careful to obey what you hear him say…and nothing more…nothing less.

It’s hard to hear him exactly at times, and there is always grace.  But the message here is that when we do hear, we are to obey what we hear him say and not try to analyze or breakdown or corrupt that which we’ve heard.