Don't Veer

Deuteronomy 11:14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

All of the blessings we’ve been talking about for days now are for those who follow the Lord’s commands.

This verse says don’t turn to the right or to the left, and don’t follow other gods or serve them.

It’s easy to get our eyes off of the Lord and His ways, and get bogged down in life and the why’s and the why not’s of our own circumstances.  When we do this, we are tempted to veer.

In other words, God says to love him with all of our hearts, and we slowly veer onto a path of loving other things more than Him – like attaining wealth, enhancing our own beauty; or even loving “the church” more than Him.  We end up landing in a ditch, down in the bottom of a pit, where we can’t see the Lord’s blessings in our lives.

Perhaps we start following other gods and serving other things, when we become selfish, bitter, or wounded – not taking the time to look up and give, receive God’s healing, and His ability to forgive others, as we have been forgiven. This type of pattern steers us wrong, and we end up off the side of a cliff somewhere – again below the level where we can see clearly God’s blessings in our lives.

Don’t turn aside.  Stay on the straight path.  And when you start to veer, correct your steering quickly, and follow Him.