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"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. "These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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 up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." Deut 6:4-9
"Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps his covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments." Deut 7:9
It is good to come through a time of doubt. Though they don't come often, it would be unrealistic to say they never do. Uncomfortable though it was, I was really ministered to by friends here at HSB and also went to God's word for renewal and refocusing. My key scriptures are those above that put into focus our family's vision. Our life is not about putting checks in the boxes for academics but is about loving God with all of our hearts and introducing our children to this great God each day with the goal of raising the next generation He's entrusted us with for Christ and His kingdom! At our Bible study on Thursday night, we were reviewing what we'd gleaned from our study on the life of David. Both in Saul's and David's life, when God called them to the great responsibility and mission to be king of his people, they were both being obedient to a humble calling. Saul was out searching for his father's lost donkeys. He was obedient to his father and doing what he might have considered a rather mundane thing. David was doing his family duty as the youngest to shepherd a floch of smelly, ignorant sheep. The principle I gathered from this facts is that God's mission seems to germinate in the lowly. We are to be obedient in the humble nonglamorous things in life while keeping our eyes on the eternal! Discipleship is in the forefront. Being faithful to the calling he put on my heart. And as far as academics goes, I had slipped into the assembly line deception. That's the philosophy that a child must make it through the "factory" of childhood having visited all the right places to have all the right parts screwed on. ie: He learns science because I screwed on this or that lesson. In reality, by teaching them to read and reading great things to them, they will become lovers of reading. By showing them how to find information during our days, they will know how to learn the things they need to as they go on in life. By memorizing Scripture, they will be hiding God's word in their hearts. If for no other reason, perhaps God used my moment of discouragement to unleash the battery of wisdom He's imparted to fellow bloggers. If you are experiencing Satan's fiery darts of doubt in hsing or just want to read some great insights...read the comments under my last blog. They were all so motivational! Here's a wonderful concluding thought from one of those comments by hskubes: "Remember God doesn't call the qualified... He qualifies the called. He has called you to do this and He will equip you with all that you need to fulfull His calling.
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