Yes, my garden. Little sweeties. I suspect you have a little something as well, with this delightful March spring.

Remember our meditation yesterday on obedience? What, then, are we to obey? You and I both know the answer to that. But here's Moses' answer: Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. Okay, got that. We are firm on obeying the laws and commands of God. Why? For it is no empty word for you, but your very life . . . " That's serious. This is not obedience for obedience's sake, but for our very lives. God means it. It is not empty rituals and tasks we do. (That's in Deuteronomy 32.)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. . . . In him was life and the life was the light of men (John 1:1, 4). He, Jesus Christ, who became sin for us, and experienced God's wrath against us, is our very life. No empty word, indeed.

Come to Him, take His yoke upon you, let Him be your very life. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). Obey this word by the power of the Word living in you. He makes obedience possible.