Week 58, Day 2: Teaching the Commands

Today’s Reading:  Deut 6:1-25

Some thoughts from today’s reading…

Moses tells the Israelites that they are to love the Lord with all their heart and have His words on their heart (4-6).  They were also to teach these words diligently to their children.  To stress this principal, Moses mentions they are to speak of these things when they sit in their house, when they walk by the way, when they lie down and when they rise up.  They were to bind these words as a sgn on their hand and as frontals on their forehead and on their doorposts and gates.  ALL the time they were to speak of God’s commands to their children.  This is what it means to be diligent to teach these things.  The teaching of these commands was vital to the wellbeing of their children.  Moses tells them that they were to fear the Lord God for their good always and for their survival (24).  It was vital for them to instill God’s commands in their children’s heart and to help them to fear God for their good also.

Question:  How does Moses define righteousness in verse 25?  How does this verse help us understand what it means to be righteous today?

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