4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord 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 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 6:4-9, ESV
Set the Table: What You Prioritize Gets Repeated.
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children... talk about them when you sit at home…
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7, NIV
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Proverbs 22:6, ESV
Watch the Portions: What You Model Gets Multiplied.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 6:5
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Philippians 4:9
Clear the Table: Not Everything Deserves a Seat.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
- Deuteronomy 6:4-9
15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
- Joshua 24:15