Don't forget the O.T.

I know I have been writing primarily about the book of Matthew, and I am doing just like I have written, but I am still reading the book of Deuteronomy at the same time. It's not the specific book that I am concerned with, it is the matter of reading both the Old and the New Testaments daily.
Today I am reading chapters 29 and 30. I have written little about what has been going on there because most of it is specific instructions for the time they are living, but today a couple of real Gems were found.

Deut 29: 29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Here we are simply told that God does indeed have secret things that belong to him alone then along come that magic word "BUT" to let us know that everything is not a secret kept only to God. What God reveals to us is for us and our children for ever.
So when we come across people and teachings that have God all figured out we can simply smile and understand they don't know as much as they think they do.

In Chapter 30 verses 11 - 14 really matches quite well what I have been reading in Matthew Chapter 18.
Deut. 30:11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
12. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13. Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14. But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Paul actually quotes Deut 30:12 - 14
in Romans 10:6 - 8 to introduce verses 9 - 13.
I sure hope that you read those verses.

I just want you to know the benefit of reading the bible in this fashion. I had no idea that everything would come together today as it has as far as the coherency of the word of God is concerned, but I have learned through experience that God wants me to understand what he has revealed in the Word of God, not only me, but everyone! God is not trying to be hard to find, but since we are separated from God because of our sin, that makes him impossible for us to find unless he shows himself to us, and the center piece that God has provided so we can know him is Jesus. It's not a matter of simply changing our thinking, it is a matter of recognition that what we cannot do God has done and that what he has done effects our heart.