Monday, October 05, 2009

Hearing & Doing - Shema Living

Our team is currently engaged in a season of seeking God's direction for our work. Much of what we are studying together stresses obedience to God and His commands, many of which were given through Jesus. What is obedience, exactly? From reading The Shema in Deuteronomy 6, my friend Matt came up with a great definition: Obedience is hearing and doing. I plan to blog some bits and pieces of our studies together, focusing on specific scriptures (hearing) as well as my response to that scripture in my daily life (doing). Today I'll start with Deuteronomy 6:3-9.

"Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."

In response to this scripture, I will lead my family daily in reading God's Word. I will also search the accounts of Jesus' life to better understand how I can obey my Lord.

May we all not just hear God's Word but obey it as well!

5 comments:

Leslie said...

Well said and Amen.

Sara said...

I'm looking forward to reading what God is teaching you. Thanks for sharing!

Miss G said...

I really enjoy reading this lady's blog. She is very intentional about this sort of living that you're describing and I have been challenged and encouraged by her. Here is one post in which she talks about it and she also has a great story about living this way in adopting two teenage boys from Africa and it shows up in so many of her posts because this is how she lives. Kelly

http://lysaterkeurst.blogspot.com/2009/10/demon-disguised-as-chips-and-salsa.html

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