Instruction Nigh At Hand
Deuteronomy 30:11-14
For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.…


A blacksmith's wife in Tennessee recently handed to a physician of the village where she lived a diamond ring, worth £300, which her husband had found in the hoof of the doctor's horse. In paring down the hoof to prepare it for a new shoe his knife touched something hard, which, on being dislodged, proved to be a ring, and the honest man sent his wife with it to the owner of the horse. It appeared that the doctor's daughter had dropped the ring while out riding, and it had lodged between the horse's hoof and the shoe, and had remained there. She had ridden to and fro many times over the road searching for the lost gem, yet it had been near her all the time. The search reminds us of men who go hither and thither consulting priests, and who read theological treatises to find the way to heaven, when all the time instruction is nigh at hand.



Parallel Verses
KJV: For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

WEB: For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.




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