Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (CEV)
Memorize his laws and tell them
to your children over and over again. Talk about them all the time, whether
you’re at home or walking along the road or going to bed at night, or getting
up in the morning. Write down copies and
tie them to your wrists and foreheads to help you obey them. Write these laws on the door frames of your
homes and on your town gates.
For me this has always been a very visual scripture. During
our trip to the Holy Land we saw how these instructions are being lived out
today. On the trip over I awoke early in
the morning on the plane to see the many Hasidic Jewish men on the plane
standing in the aisles praying with phylacteries (small square boxes) on their
foreheads, straps on their arms and prayer shawls around their shoulders. It’s
kind of freaky to see this sight in person at 4:30 AM. We encountered the same
thing on the return trip. While it looked strange to me, I still admired their
dedication to the tenets of their faith.
While we may not be as strict in observing spiritual disciplines like
prayer, fasting, Bible study and worship it is certainly a good thing to
develop regular habits in our faith walk.
If we can establish routines for these disciplines they will soon become
habits and these habits will become second nature. When prayer becomes as
natural as breathing out and breathing in, lives are changed. I hope that you will each continue to give
God some of your time each day. Since you are reading this devotion, you have
made a good start.
Gracious
God, life gets so busy and we are so weary that we often put off spending time
in your Word and in prayer. Forgive us
our neglect and guide us to a way to find more time for these things that
matter the most in your kingdom. We ask
in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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