Deuteronomy 6

"Fear the Lord you God by keeping all his decrees and commands" from Deuteronomy 6:2 NIV. I'm not sure I understand how this works. Fear God by doing what He says? Is that the same as doing what God says because you fear Him?

I'd like to come back to this and do more research.

Obey God and it will go well with you.

Another future research opportunity from 6:4 "The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

One of my favoirte scriptures ... "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your strength." Deuteronomy 6:5 NIV. It is a great reminder of how much we are to give to God of ourselves and what it is okay to hold back from Him. I don't need to keep anything from Him. Everything I have is really His. Anything I want to hold onto and keep for myself, whetehr good or bad, can be handled better by Almighty God than my me. I know ... "Duh!" right. So why do I try to do some things on my own without asking God what He thinks would be best. So much less stress in decision making when I remember to pray and ask for clear guidance.

Do whatever it takes to remember what God has told us. Talk about it consistently and frequently. Was that redundant? I think it was.

When times are easy and your life is overflowing with blessings don't forget who it was that blessed you.

Fear the one and only true God. Do not be led astray by any other so called gods.

"Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you." Deuteronomy 6:18 NIV. Notice it is referring to the Lord's sight ... not what is right and good in our own sight.

When your children ask why do we have to live this way, different from the rest of the world tell them because Jesus, Almighty God, brought us out of slavery to sin and darkness.

If we obey the Lord, that will be our righteousness.