Deuteronomy 5:28 “And the Lord heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken. 29 Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!
In this chapter we have Moses reminding the people of the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai and the sense of Holiness experienced by His people. They were overwhelmed that God would speak to them, and asked Moses to be their go between, receiving the fulness of His commandments to then share with them. They had then committed to live by His covenant. The above is His response: He heard their words and the intent they had to reverently obey. But God knows the hearts of men. He knew that they (and we) would not always reverence and obey Him. God hears the promises we make Him, and also knows our inability on our own to always keep them. This leads God in the next chapter to remind them of their greatest commandment: 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
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