October 18 Daily Discovery
October 18 Daily Discovery - Read Deuteronomy Chapter 6
This passage below is from the King James Version (ekjv.org).
Remarks from the Berean Fellowship follow the passage below.
[1] Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
[2] That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
[3] Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
[4] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
[5] And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
[6] And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
[7] And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
[8] And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
[9] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
[10] And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
[11] And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
[12] Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[13] Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
[14] Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
[15] (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
[16] Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
[17] Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
[18] And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
[19] To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
[20] And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
[21] Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
[22] And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
[23] And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
[24] And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
[25] And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
When the Word of God is in Our Hearts
God has revealed Himself in creation. We can know Him and love Him simply by that alone. When we love God with all our hearts we will love everything about Him including His sovereignty over our lives and His commands that He has given us. When we become privileged in such a way is to get to have His word in our own language and we have the gift of reading, loving Him should naturally move us to loving His word. Originally, God gave His commands on two tables of stone; later they were written on softer materials, but it has always been God's intent that we would carry His word in our hearts.
Prov. 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Immediately following the great commandment (to love God with all our hearts), God says, "and these words that I give you this day shall be in your hearts".
These words that I give you...
Teach them
Teach your children them with diligence, teach them when you're sitting in your house when you're out walking about just going about regular business, teach them when it's getting time for bed and you're ready to go to sleep and teach them when you get up again. We don't have to have a family catechism, we need to teach our children simply as a part of life.
Of course, doing this requires first that you know them yourself and that you are indeed meditating upon them and hiding them in your heart.
Bind them
Integrate reminders of them in your clothing and wear them on your body.
Write them
Make reminders in little signs that you can place about your house to keep them in front of your face. Earlier today I was listening to the book of Luke where it is recorded that Jesus told his listeners to beware of covetousness. That had me thinking ... I can remember approaching people's homes and seeing a beware of dog sign on their fence or their door. I think it would be very wise for us to make a beware of covetousness sign and posted about our homes among our stuff. Life does not equal stuff.
So I Can Bless You
God has not given us rules because He is a cosmic killjoy. The scriptures serve is an owner's manual for life. God wants things to go well with us and for us.
The purpose of knowing and following the instructions of the Scripture is to deepen our love-relationship with our Creator. When we go to the Scriptures because we want to see the face of God, we get a blessing different then just reading the Bible as an intellectual pursuit. One can know God without knowing the Bible. God is available to all people, including the illiterate. On the surface, we can know about God more fully by reading His word but if we truly seek Him through it, we will end up knowing Him more, not just knowing what He says.
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