Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
What does it mean to love God with all my strength? I think it means loving God like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (We know God can save us, but even if He does not…Daniel 3:17-18), to love God even if our world is falling apart, even when our hearts are breaking.
Deuteronomy 6:6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
I think that’s why Moses encourages the Israelites to keep these commandments on their hearts, teach them to their children, talk about them at home and on the road, to surround themselves with these commandments.
Deuteronomy 6:7 Impress 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.
Precious Savior, Thank You for loving me even though I rail in anger, bitterness, fear, confusion when life is falling apart, when my heart is breaking. Thank You for being big enough to handle all my emotions. Thank You for helping me to see, again and again, what it means to love You with all my strength. Thank You. Amen.
Deuteronomy 6:8-9 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Have a blessed day.