"Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine
in your heart and in your soul, and bind them
as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach
them to your children, speaking of them when
you sit in your house, when you walk by the way,
when you lie down, and when you rise up."
Deut. 11;18-19
When we look into the "Book of Remembrance,"
this re-statement or expansion of the law given
to Moses on the Mount, we find instruction that
seems to be lost on the church today; We go back
and learn the lessons of the second book of the
Law.
The persons to whom it was directed were on the
verge of entering the long promised land their
fore-fathers forfeit because of disobedience. The
Children of Israel were given instrution through-
out this book on how to take and occupy the land,
"flowing with milk and honey." This was a land
unlike any they had known, and the differences
were all positive.
"For the Land, whither thou goest in to
possess it, is not as the land of Egypt,
from which you came out, where thou
sowest thy seed, and waterest it with thy
foot, as a garden of herbs.
But the land, whither ye go to possess it,
is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh
water of the rains of heaven.
A land which the Lord thy God careth for"...
Deuteronomy 11: 10-12a
We do not know just how fully those who were to
inherit this land knew of the blessing from the Lord.
One obvious reason for this book was instructions
on how to take it and how to occupy this land suc-
cessfully. These same instructions are to us as we
follow Jesus Christ and teach the next generation
from the Word of God. The understanding is, those
who possess "this" land would not be required to
"slave" over it as they did in Egypt. Not only would
it be their own land, as a gift from the Lord God;
but He would be responsible for much of the care of
the Land.
In the same way, the follower of Jesus Christ is not
a mere custodian of the gifts from the Lord. He
will make sure of our success as we follow him cir-
cumspectly. There may be differences in details of
following Christ under grace, and obeying God in
the law, but the overriding principles are the same.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his judgments, and his command-
ments, alway." Deut. 11: 1, kjv
"Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is
the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets." Matthew 22: 37-40
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