Deuteronomy 6:4-9
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 commands that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk of 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.
So we are to love God with everything in us, teach our children all about what He has done and what He has promised to do, and saturate our families in the Word of God; talk about Him all the time, coming and going; wear the symbols as bracelets and headbands, decorate our houses and yards with them.
So we wear crosses as jewelry and blazoned on our tee shirts; but are we really reminded constantly of God's love for us in sending His own Son to die our death so we can live? Or are we so jaded that we can see the crosses and not perceive the depth of the relationship that God wants to have with us?
We must teach our children ourselves, not depend on a church or camp to do it for us; they must see in our own daily lives and attitudes the truths that fuel our living. Because they will catch what we really do believe, as shown in our lives. We live in glass houses, nothing will be hidden or secret from our children and grandchildren.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
