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Deuteronomy 4:9 speaks of teaching God’s ways and instructions to our children and their children. This is so that what God had done in the midst of the Israelites after their journey out of Egypt in the wilderness before crossing the Jordan can be remembered forever. It was in the desert that God spoke to the Israelites and gave them His Ten Commandments written in two tablets of stone. Moses was then to teach them the LORD’s decrees and percepts that they need to observe and obey as they cross the Jordan into the Promised Land.
This instructions to teach the children God and about God and about what He did for the Israelites of ancient times are actually practiced by the Jews in modern times during the Shabbat when the whole family gathers together and don’t do anything except to read Scriptures and to remember God in their lives, a time to celebrate and remember what God did for them in ancient times as immortalised in the Scriptures. The time spans a whole day from sundown to sundown and the religious Jews keep this religiously, dropping everything and flying back home from wherever they are just to observe this. They come home from afar as I guess this is a family affair, not really a ritual one can observe from the confines of of a hotel room in an alien land. It is an excellent practice to do as Deuteronomy 4:9 teaches.
As believers of Jesus, we need to find a way to have this family time together to teach our own children about God and the goodness of God as expounded in Scriptures and as experienced in our own family in contemporary times. This is beyond going to church on a Saturday evening or a Subday morning. It is a time of thanksgiving and reflection. A time of memories and gratefulness. A time to contemplate what God has in the future for our family, for our children and for our children’s children. That God and Jesus may indeed be immortalised in the living annals of our families with praise, thanksgiving and worship and songs of deliverance and victory! That God is indeed the LORD of our home and family and that Jesus Christ is indeed our Lord and Saviour!
Ronnie's Thoughts 