Today's Reading:
Deuteronomy 11:1-12:32
Acts 6:1-15
Psalm 51:10-19
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Focus Verses: Deuteronomy 11:1-2, 18-21
1
Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws
and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not
the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God:
his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm...
18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach
them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when
you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so
that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land
the LORD swore to give your ancestors, as many as the days that the
heavens are above the earth.
Insight:
The
Israelites were finally taking possession of the land God had promised.
As they settled down and established their new lives, they would need
to be intentional about preserving and telling the stories of God's
deliverance. They would need to live out their faith and be careful to
pass it on to their children. They would need to tell the stories of
wonders and miracles experienced, of hard-learned lessons, of God's
faithful provision, of how God had given them the Law through Moses.
They would need to live and teach the principles and practices that
shaped their faith and worship.
Response and Action:
I
want to be intentional about sharing my faith with my children. They
don't know everything about my history. They haven't lived my life
journey. I will be faithful to communicate the things God has taught me.
I will make every effort to share stories, songs, experiences that have
shaped and strengthened my faith. I will live out my faith in
practical, visible, unavoidable ways that can be understood and copied.
O
God, help me to know you and to live in truth. Make me aware of your
presence and provision in my life, and help me to tell that story to
others. By your grace, help me to share my faith with others–especially
my children and grandchildren. Give me the clarity, the dedication, and
the intentionality I need to nurture and strengthen the faith of those
you would have me teach. Through Christ, I pray. Amen.
Spiritual Formation Verses: 1 Peter 3:15
15 But
in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with gentleness and respect...
Resources:
Hope Has Its Reasons
by Rebecca Manley Pippert
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the person of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Teach Your Children
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