Love the Lord your God

Deuteronomy 6:1-12, NASB

Circa 1451 BC

It was a bitter-sweet time for Moses. The time to be gathered to his fathers was rapidly approaching. He would never set foot in the Land of Milk & Honey. The land that God promised. The land to which Moses had led the “chosen people” from their exit from slavery in Egypt.

For forty years, Moses would teach, preach, beseech, but not reach the promised land himself. Only from a mountain top would God permit Moses to see the land, so rich, so beautiful, just beyond the river. Read now his rallying words of encouragement and of warning to the Jews to obey God and prosper. Savor his message, meditate on it's power and beauty:

(Deu 6:1) "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

(Deu 6:2) so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

(Deu 6:3) "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

(Deu 6:4) "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

(Deu 6:5) "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

(Deu 6:6) "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

(Deu 6:7) "You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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 up.

(Deu 6:8) "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

(Deu 6:9) "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

(Deu 6:10) "Then it shall come about when the LORD your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you, great and splendid cities which you did not build,

(Deu 6:11) and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,

(Deu 6:12) then watch yourself, that you do not forget the LORD who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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