Deuteronomy 6:4-5 "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might."
The chapter speaks of fearing the Lord but also the hope that love would bring obedience.
It goes ahead to when the children ask their parents about their statutes and the 'why' of it. They are to tell the story of how they were in Egypt bondage and how the Lord brought them out through many wonders.
v22 "And the Lord shewed signs and wonders great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes:"
The next verse can be related to our Christian life as all scripture can in some way. We have often had our lives changed and we are forced to readjust somehow. A new job, sickness or something else uproots us from our comfort zone. It could be that there are better things if we would only move. Like the mother eagle makes the nest uncomfortable when it is time for the young eagle to fly.
v23 "And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers."
So, in case the question has come up as to why God wants Israel to do all these commands, the next verse explains.
v24 "And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day.
Again he says 'observe to do'.
I want to jump back to chapter 5 and pick up the last verse:
v33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
It is for our good that the Lord wants us to do right.
Psalm 29:2 "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness."
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