Love The Lord Your God

With All Your Heart

These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

God encourages His people to be intentional about teaching younger generations to know and obey the Scriptures. As the Israelites increased their knowledge of God, they and their children would be more likely to grow in reverence of Him and to enjoy the rewards that come through knowing Him obediently.

By intentionally saturating our hearts and our minds with Scripture, we will be better prepared to share God’s love and truth with children during our everyday activities. Leading by example, we can equip and encourage young people to recognize and respect the authority and relevance of God’s unchanging truth.

As God’s words flow naturally from our hearts and out of our mouths we can leave a strong legacy of faith to be passed down from generation to generation.

The words we take in determine the words we speak,

live by, and pass on to those around us.

Our Daily Bread – June 25, 2017