"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 6:6-9
When you take something seriously, what does it look like? I would imagine that it's something like what God had Moses describe in these verses above. You can't stop talking about it. It's on your mind all the time. And it's not just something that you keep to yourself. You want others to know about its importance, and so you look for occasions to talk about it with them. There isn't a day that goes by without it crossing your mind many times.
It seems that God wants His people to take their relationship with Him quite seriously. If you look through those verses above, you see that it covers the whole spectrum of the day. It covers the activities that you might be engaged in throughout the day. God really isn't interested in your faith life and your relationship with Him only on Sunday morning for an hour or two. He wants it to be all consuming to you. He wants you to take it seriously.
Many of you who read this likely have a spouse and/or family. You probably take them seriously. You have pictures of them around you, and you think of them quite often. You plan special things to do for them to show them how important they are. They are never really all that far from your mind.
That seems to be the same kind of relationship that God looks for from us toward Him. And the thing is, it's a relationship that He never gives up on. When you were baptized, God put His Spirit on you, as a deposit, which ensures that He wants you to be His always. The forgiveness of Jesus never leaves you. It's not just yours on Sunday morning, but every moment of every day. And God never leaves you, but instead is with you, both in the way that He is present in the whole world, but also in the way in which He has saved you and rescued you from death and hell.
God never takes His mind off of you. You and I will never be able to say the same about God. But as we live our Christian lives, God does want for us to take His relationship with us seriously. He doesn't want it to be something that we cling to only when it's convenient, or only when times are good, or only when we are in trouble. He wants it to be a part of every day, of every thing that we do. God takes you seriously enough to give up His own Son, and to establish such a relationship with you. My prayer is that you take your relationship with God as seriously as you can, too.
When you take something seriously, what does it look like? I would imagine that it's something like what God had Moses describe in these verses above. You can't stop talking about it. It's on your mind all the time. And it's not just something that you keep to yourself. You want others to know about its importance, and so you look for occasions to talk about it with them. There isn't a day that goes by without it crossing your mind many times.
It seems that God wants His people to take their relationship with Him quite seriously. If you look through those verses above, you see that it covers the whole spectrum of the day. It covers the activities that you might be engaged in throughout the day. God really isn't interested in your faith life and your relationship with Him only on Sunday morning for an hour or two. He wants it to be all consuming to you. He wants you to take it seriously.
Many of you who read this likely have a spouse and/or family. You probably take them seriously. You have pictures of them around you, and you think of them quite often. You plan special things to do for them to show them how important they are. They are never really all that far from your mind.
That seems to be the same kind of relationship that God looks for from us toward Him. And the thing is, it's a relationship that He never gives up on. When you were baptized, God put His Spirit on you, as a deposit, which ensures that He wants you to be His always. The forgiveness of Jesus never leaves you. It's not just yours on Sunday morning, but every moment of every day. And God never leaves you, but instead is with you, both in the way that He is present in the whole world, but also in the way in which He has saved you and rescued you from death and hell.
God never takes His mind off of you. You and I will never be able to say the same about God. But as we live our Christian lives, God does want for us to take His relationship with us seriously. He doesn't want it to be something that we cling to only when it's convenient, or only when times are good, or only when we are in trouble. He wants it to be a part of every day, of every thing that we do. God takes you seriously enough to give up His own Son, and to establish such a relationship with you. My prayer is that you take your relationship with God as seriously as you can, too.
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