"Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it."
-Deuteronomy 12:32
What grabs me here is that God tells us to be diligent to do what He calls us to, and we aren't to add anything or take anything away.
On the one hand, we're to be thorough, making sure there's nothing we leave out when we hear something from Him. All the extra "homework" assignments we need to do in order to fill His command we must be sure to follow through on. But on the other hand, there's relief in that there's a lot that we don't have to do. If He didn't speak it to us, then we should leave it out and not add to ourselves any false responsibility that's not helpful to us or the Kingdom of God that we're building.
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