By Glenn Metts
Pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church, Seymour
Focal Passage: Deuteronomy 6:1-13
Loving and worshiping God is the greatest enjoyment in all of life. I believe that. I love what the Westminster Shorter Catechism states when it says, “Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” Those words were written in 1647. That thought is the heart of our passage this week. Written about 1407 B.C., the heart of Deuteronomy 6:1-13, is that we love the Lord preeminently in our lives. To love Him is to worship him and to walk in obedience to Him in every area of our lives. As our lesson states, “loving God with all of one’s being leads to obedience.”
Moses is reminding a new generation of the commands, decrees and laws that God has spoken. Although he won’t be going with them into the promised land, he is teaching them who God is and that their lives are to be centered around loving, worshiping, and obeying Him.
Moses has been their leader, and he is much like a father making sure these truths are ingrained into their minds, and more importantly their hearts. Verses 6-9 speak of the importance of teaching these truths and living them. These things were to be upon their hearts. They were to impress them on their children. They were to talk about them when they sat at home or walked along the road and when they went to bed and when they got up. In other words, they were to be very careful to pass this on to the next generation. They were not to forget. [Read more…]