The Greatest Command!

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates” (Deut. 6:4-9).

Put Them In Your Heart

That which is in our heart is who we really are. It may be the evil of this world, “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Mt. 15:18,19). Or it may be the righteousness of God, “But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered” (Rom. 6:17).

Teach Them To Your Children

“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it” (Pr. 22:6). The best way to teach a child is by our own example. Moses told the Israelites to continually teach these things to your children, when you sit, when you walk, when you lie down. Always!

Bind Them To You

Most people are not born musically gifted like Mozart or athletically gifted like Michael Phelps. Most have to train themselves to be great. Even these two, if they had not developed what natural abilities that they had, then they would never have become what we know them for. As Christians, should we focus on God less than someone would on swimming or playing the piano?