The Lord Your God Directed Me

To Teach You

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

When Moses prepared the Israelites to enter the Promised Land, he turned them to hold close to God’s commands and decrees. Wanting them to flourish, he said they should turn these instructions over in their minds with their children. He even said to tied them to their wrists and bind them to their foreheads. He didn’t want them to forget God’s instructions to live as people who honored the Lord and enjoyed His blessings.

Before you go to sleep, consider a short passage from the Bible as the last act of the day. Many are the ways of keeping God’s Word close to our hearts!

Surround yourself with God’s Word.

Our Daily Bread – May 5, 2018