” Listen O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:4-9
What a message we find our God of heaven giving his people. You and I are also his people. We were grafted in when Jesus came to this world to save us with his death on the cross. We, like those before us, were born into sin. We have been trained up in the ways of the world around us, if not by teachings, then by the way people live and act around us. Today is no different than it was thousands of years ago. We need to change the way we think and live. This is very hard to do. We must believe in things we cannot see and confess things that we sometimes are unsure of. However, God has given us solid instructions. We are to focus our lives on his Holy Word, meditate on it always and never allow a crack to develop in our armor. With sincerity we must support our faith in Jesus. We are to love our God in heaven with everything we are. We are to love him with our whole being which involves the whole man, both physical body and soul. We are to read his scriptures and to recite them in the morning, in the daytime, at noon, in the afternoon, in the evening and when we go to bed. He is to be our life. There will be great struggles put before us. We must never forget where our strength comes from! We must always look to our Lord first! Our God in heaven is our source for everything that belongs to us! We must look to him in good times and in times of anguish. He loves us and he loves us unconditionally! We must not only acknowledge that fact, but we must live our lives in such a way that represents his ways to those around us! PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!
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