Today I walked with the grandbabies to the park and the sky was just so and there was a slight breeze … Just a faint smell of fall in the air, a few leaves turned yellow had fallen to the ground … Sweet chubby arms reaching up for a quick hug before toddling off to play again.
I remember walking with my mom on days like that when I was a child. I remember her telling me, “Do you see those trees? God made those trees. He loves us very much.” In my mind’s eye I can go back and remember a street lined with trees, the sun floating down on thin golden ribbons, streaking us with their rays.
I remember my dad picking me up from a nursery. The walls were blue and the windows were high up near the ceiling. He would pick me up and as soon as we were out on the walkway, he would swing me up and carry me on his shoulders and we walked down the arch-lined walkway. He the king and I his princess greeting everyone we’d meet.
Today we live in a world where people have forgotten that they must Show & Tell their children about their faith or their will be no faith to share. Deuteronomy 6 says
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. a]">[a] 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
On this day that the world around us celebrates everything that is anti-Christian, let us not forget that the Lord, our Lord brought us OUT of the land of slavery, slavery to another nation, slavery to their idols, idols made of wood and stone and fashioned by their own hands. God brought us OUT of slavery INTO freedom and blessing … and then warned us to be careful NOT to forget the Lord.
10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
My parents were careful to Show & Tell me about His great love towards us. It is important that we Show & Tell our children, our children’s children, our friends children, each other … about how God delivered us and about His great mercies towards us
20 In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" 21 tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. 23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. 24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. 25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness."
Let us obey all that God has told us to do and let us fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive. Let us have an answer in season and out of season to tell the next generation of the goodness of the Lord.
1 comment:
Sometimes I feel/felt awkward about not hiding my left hand from my right, but also always had Deuteronomy 6 in the back of my mind. May the Lord grand us more opportunities to share His goodness. Love ya!
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