Today's Reading is Deuteronomy 27...
My thoughts on today's reading...
Once God's people enter into the promised land, they are to set up stones on which they were to write the words of God's commands so they might remember them. There is a valley between two mountains in the Holy Land, Mount Gerizim being one and Mount Ebal the other... God's people are to gather in the valley, and then the leaders of the tribes, six on each mountain, and as they share the commands of God, they are to call out those things that will be a blessing to them as they keep the commands, and the curses which will be against them if they don't keep them.
I'm reminded of a number of years ago when there was a push to have the Ten Commandments put up in public places. (Compare that to today, when I don't even think such a thing would be allowed any more, even if people wanted to!) But I mention it because while it is good to have reminders of God's Word and Commandments before His people, it does little good if they aren't obeyed. That was Israel's problem. You hear how they are suppose to shout Amen, which literally means, let it be so... but so often they didn't choose the path of blessings, but the way of the curses.
I pray that as we hear God's Word that we seek not just to hear, but obey! Amen! Let it be so!