I wrote yesterday from Moses’ Deuteronomy sermons about how the Ten Commandments (The Big Ten) are for our good. Moses continues with a helpful how-to:

You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth. (Deuteronomy 11:18-21, ESV)

The key is the word – “lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul…” “Teach them to your children…” as part of life. I think some of us dropped the ball here – too much TV, for example, which, even at its best, was not promoting a godly lifestyle.

Moses is repeating himself in Chapter 11! Here’s what’s recorded in chapter 6:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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. 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. (Deuteronomy 6.4 – 9, ESV)

This is the post to which I’ve been assigned—keeping you alert with frequent reminders—and I’m sticking to it as long as I live. (2 Peter 1.13, MSG)