If only my half baked, unfinished and unpolished ideas would finsh and refine themselves by themselves. Now I sound repetitive, but I have so many ideas, what am I to do with them? I suppose that I could sell them.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5-9
If I were somebody else, I would take it into my head to sit down and write out an exra long, five page post about the article that I just linked to. I would go over it, bit by bit and reason with you, explain it, rail against the whole stupidity of mankind, or I might just calmly critique it. I could sway you with powerfully charged words, meant to stir up emotions inside of you, words do that, you know. But I won’t and I don’t need to this time, that article said it all. Of course, I might write something in a journal or a letter, or sometime in the far off future I may post something here, even though I said that I wouldn’t, people do that, you know, but I won’t.
The afore mentioned verse was just a brief, but powerful, short but meaningful, simple but complex verse to tell us in so very few words that we need to love God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all of our strength, and when we do that we will obey His commandments, not just a few of them but all of them, from the ones that we think don’t matter, to “Thou shalt not kill” and this particular one from Dueteronomy 6, all are included. Because when we do love God with all our heart, soul and strength, we will pass on His laws from age to age, and tell our children why they do it and when we see them pass it on to our grandchildren, then we can rest in peace. Then, perhaps our generation will survive.
Not for our glory, but for God’s!
Coram Deo~ Gracie