Deuteronomy 11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it.
Your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which He did. In the previous verses Moses four times repeats the words, “what he did unto….” He is rehearsing what God the Lord did for His people in judgment on enemies, in mercy for Israel, and in provision for them. You have seen God act for your salvation, even if you were not there you have witnessed it yourself when you heard the Gospel Story repeated for you.
Hearing is believing; believing is seeing. So Jesus proclaims to Thomas, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” We who alive today have not physically seen the suffering and dying Jesus nor the resurrected Lord, but we believe the eyewitnesses of the New Testament. By faith we have seen, and that is just as strong and as personal as if we were there to see what God did on the Cross and the Tomb. God grants sight and insight through the Gospel.
Therefore, because we too have heard and seen the Gospel (what God did), we will respond by keeping God’s Ten Words and by going in to possess the Kingdom of God. In other words, we receive Jesus, believe the Promise, and enter into the Kingdom to make it our true home. When we believe and are baptized we are born again through water and the Spirit we see and enter the Kingdom of God. We remember and make fresh this possession by daily repentance and faith. And by faith in Christ we keep the Commandments. He kept the Law for us, and we walk into God’s righteousness.