7 “The Lord did not set His
heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations,
for you were the smallest of all nations! 8 Rather, it was
simply that the Lord loves you, and He was keeping the oath He had sworn to
your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a
strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of
Egypt. 9 Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is The Faithful God who keeps His covenant
for a thousand generations and lavishes His unfailing love on those who love Him
and obey His commands. 10 But He does not
hesitate to punish and destroy those who reject Him. 11 Therefore, you
must OBEY all these commands, decrees, and regulations I
am giving you today.
12 “If you listen to these regulations and faithfully obey them, the Lord your God will keep His covenant of unfailing love
with you, as He promised with an oath to your ancestors. 13 He will love you and bless you, and He will
give you many children. He will give fertility to your land and your
animals. When you arrive in the land He swore to give your ancestors, you will
have large harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and
great herds of cattle, sheep, and goats. 14 You will be
blessed above all the nations of the earth. None of your men or women will be
childless, and all your livestock will bear young. 15 And the Lord will protect
you from all sickness. He will not let you
suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict
them on all your enemies!”
As parents what do we NOT do, in
order to help our children from having to walk by the difficulties that we’ve
already mastered? We all do or at least try to do “infinity and beyond”, right?!
And we have a great example, because all through The Bible our heavenly Father
teaches us how to walk in this life He’d given us.
As God’s children we are expected to learn
from Him and His Word, and then pass that teaching onto our children, and unto
those that God continues to allow us to share it with whether are people at
work, neighbors, and relatives or in ministry. The years that we’re allowed to
live on this life ought to be a life of teaching, if you have not realized it
just yet, think about it, and start today!
When you teach someone about God’s
Word, you will be planting seeds that will never come back void, even if you do
not have a green thumb like someone I know, God’s Word will always grow! “It is
the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will
accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”[1]
Get in the habit of reading God’s
Word, daily! Meditate on it; ask God, first how can you apply this Word to your
life? Is what you’re reading something God says not to do and you’re doing it?
Then stop doing that thing, confess it as sin, and do it no more! Is what you’re
reading praising someone for what they are doing and you could do the same
thing but aren’t doing it? Then follow God’s lead and do what God says to. It’s
just as simple as that!!! YOU will grow, and those around you will grow too as
they FOLLOW you, some immediately, others eventually. And then, after applying God’s Word to you; then
Ask The Lord, who does HE wants you to share it with, and do as He leads you. So, DO NOT wait another day; start planting TODAY....
tomorrow could be too late!
I pray your hunger for the Word
of God grows inside your heart more and more everyday! And I pray that if you haven’t
start studying the Word, you determine to start today. I’m including a Bible
Reading plan from one of my favorite resources[2],
in case you do not have one, you can start follow it, and start immediately! I
pray you start visiting a church on a regular bases, and join a Sunday Bible
class; and I pray the Lord surrounds you with mighty men and women of God to
support you in this walk, for its for His glory, I pray in JESUS name, AMEN!!!
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