In this video listen to Deuteronomy 30 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Deuteronomy 30 the speech of Moses is starting to wind down, even though there are still 4 chapters after this one. It now continues prophetically as the last few chapters have been. In verse 1-3 Moses talks about a future moment when in captivity, their thoughts turn back to God.

Much later the people that returned from the Babylonian exile were a different people to those just a hundred years prior. They had learned their lessons, and seemed to have been cured from their idolatry. Yet they were still tempted away from God by other things, and their hearts became proud in other ways, as Jesus would point out in Matthew 17 and other places.

Verse 6 is one of my favourite verses. “Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and  ...