If God Had a Wish

Deuteronomy 5:29 KJV
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

I am sure God is sovereign. But I am also aware that, for the sake of bringing man to worship Him out of love, He has allowed the devil to influence this world and He has given man the right to disregard Him if they please.

Here we find people whose plan is to have Moses speak with God and bring the message back to them. They say that all that God tells Moses they will hear and they will do. God's response is "O, that there were such a heart in man..."

God's great desire is that
• Man would fear Him from the heart, that
• We would keep His commandments, and that
• It would be well with our children

That desire will be fully the realized in the eternal future, when God's plan is finalized that the mankind that enters eternity will be such
• That love and fear of God,
• That keep His commandments without the rod, and
• That go into eternity in perpetual wellness.