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Parenting on purpose.

I want to read to you, Deuteronomy 6, verse 6 through 9. It says this. These commandments

that I give you today are to be on your hearts and press 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 door frames of your houses and on your gates.

This passage, this is right when the Lord had given, you know, Israel the commandments.

And I'm just really encouraged by what this passage is saying here.

It's funny because we read this and there's a lot of symbolic talk here.

It says, tie them as symbols on your hands, bind them on your foreheads.

Oh, what does that mean?

I'm reading this and when I look at this, first and foremost, I see intentionality.

It's so crazy because when God gives a command, it's not just for you.

It's for your family. God gives a command, it's not just for you. It's for your family.

God is God who is about family.

He is a family-oriented God.

And so right off the bat, when he gives a command to his people,

he's already giving the command to train your children in the Lord.

God expects us to be intentional. And it says this here, tie them as symbols on your hands,

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