Where's Your Focus?

Isn't it so easy to get our priorities totally out of focus? For our family, it's a daily struggle. This past Sunday, Pastor Craig preached on "A Call to Be Saturated With God." The main text was a very familiar text, Deuteronomy 6:1-9. In case, you are not familiar with this particular passage, I have included it in this posting.

Deuteronomy 6 - Obey God and Prosper (NASB95)

~ 1 "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the LORD your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

~ 2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the LORD your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

~ 3 "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

~ 4 "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!

~ 5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

~ 6 "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

~ 7 "You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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 up.

~ 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.

~ 9 "You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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Pastor Craig concluded with these questions:

1. Is your God-saturated life spilling over into teaching your children as a way of life, all the time, with a precision sharpness, honing them spiritually to be sharp followers of the Lord?

2. What could you do better if anything?

3. And if you are NOT involved in this before your God, are you going to all the world, the flesh, and the Devil to indoctrinate your child, or are you?

He further states, "And please be reminded, it not the responsibility of the Christian School, the Sunday School, or the church, first." It is easy and tempting to allow others to do what God has called us specifically to do. 

Finally, in Deuteronomy 5:29 (NASB95), "Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever! In Deuteronomy 6:5 (NASB95), "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might."

Our focus is "TEACHING OUR CHILDREN!"