4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, 12 then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
(Deuteronomy 6)
Loving God. Plan and simple, that was what God asks for. But why should we? That is what fathers are responsible to share. The fathers of Israel had been sharing it for generations; this generation which was witnessing the Exodus was to do the same. So are we in this present generation. This first half of the chapter explains more the "how" we are to do it: in daily life - in what we say, what we show to be important, and what we surround ourselves with in our home and lives. The second half of this chapter goes on to tell why: if we do not, then we forget and get distracted by the false "gods" of this world, and will end up forfeiting the blessings God gives His people. Don't be the dad who neglects his responsibility of sharing God's faithfulness with the next generation. When we do, we fail our families and the God Who has given them to us.
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