Deuteronomy 13:1-5: in context

Moses warns of a subtle danger: a prophet or dreamer who gives a sign or wonder that actually comes to pass, and yet uses it to say, let us go after other gods and serve them. Even then, Moses says, you shall not listen; for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love him with all your heart and soul. And he gives the response: you shall walk after the LORD your God, fear him, keep his commandments, obey his voice, serve him, and cling to him. Not even a sign that comes true is to draw you away from God.

The striking thing in this warning is that even a genuine sign or wonder is not to draw us from God. We might think that a sign that comes true proves the messenger true and demands that we follow. But Moses says otherwise: if the sign is used to lead us toward other gods, away from the LORD, we are not to follow it, however impressive it is. Truth and loyalty to God matter more than signs; a wonder that leads away from God is not to be heeded, even though it comes to pass. Our loyalty to God is to be so firm that nothing, however impressive or persuasive, draws us away. And Moses names what such a thing is: a test, whether we love God with all our heart. This holds a principle for our own loyalty to God. We can be swayed by what is impressive, persuasive, or seemingly successful, drawn to follow whatever displays power or appears to work, even when it leads away from God and his truth. Moses warns against exactly this: our loyalty to God is not to be moved even by signs and wonders, if they lead away from him. Even if an angel from heaven, Paul says, should preach a different gospel, let him be accursed; not even a heavenly messenger is to draw us from the truth. Our clinging to God is to be so firm that nothing, however impressive, moves us. And Jesus warned that false christs would show great signs to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. Signs and wonders, impressive as they are, do not override our loyalty to God and his truth. This searches the firmness of our loyalty to God. Are we so firmly held to God that nothing draws us away, or are we easily swayed by what is impressive, persuasive, or seemingly successful, even when it leads from him? Moses warns that not even a sign that comes true is to move us from God; our loyalty is to be firmer than that. And such testing reveals whether we truly love God with all our heart, or whether our loyalty can be bought by an impressive display. This calls us to hold fast to God with an unshakable loyalty. Cling to him, Moses says; walk after him, fear him, obey him, serve him. Our loyalty to God is to be so firm that nothing, however impressive or persuasive, draws us away, so that we hold fast to God and his truth even against signs and wonders that would lead us from him, clinging to the LORD with a loyalty that cannot be moved.

Is my loyalty to God so firm that nothing draws me away, or am I easily swayed by what is impressive, persuasive, or seemingly successful, even when it leads from him and his truth, and can Moses' warning that not even a sign that comes true is to draw us from God, but that we are to cling to him, move me to hold fast to God with an unshakable loyalty, so that nothing, however impressive, moves me from him, and the testing of my loyalty reveals that I love him with all my heart?