"Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." (Deuteronomy 20:11, NIV)
Jesus, in reality, says this at the end of every command, teaching. He says it at the "end" of the Sermon on the Mount, indeed, every Word He utters in the Gospels are followed by and integral to, "....is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach."
This is, however, where humanity goes wrong. They do think and live that the commandments of the Living Triune God are, "....beyond your reach." They think and live that the Law/Word of God, revealed in and affirmed by Jesus, are unreasonable, picky, irrelevant, archaic, even "cruel and unusual punishment." They believe and live that all the aforementioned railing on the Law and the Godhead justifies their rebellious ways; therefore, they agree with Sinatra: "I did it my way."
The world believes the lie. You and I, on the other hand, believe that the Commands of Jesus are, "not too difficult for you or beyond your reach." Some following verses say, "No, the Word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it." If this is true in the First Covenant, it is also for sure within our, "reach," in the, "Better Covenant." Because, "Jesus Christ is in you," means that His Life-Power-Righteousness -Law/Word is in us.
This is why the Holy Spirit goes on to say, "It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us...?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it?'" Nor is, "it," only in some meeting, some "anointed prophetic conference," or any other religious endeavor that we find His Indwelling Law/Word. Let this sink into all of us, "....the Word is...in your mouth and in your heart," the same "location" of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Father, in Jesus' Name, I thank You that all You are and "have" for me is, "not too difficult for [me] or beyond [my] reach." Amen.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12:2
