Deuteronomy 6:6-7a These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. (Having declared God's sovereignty and, thus, a charge to love Him with every aspect of human capacity, Moses continues what pious Jews refer to as the Shema, meaning to hear, and which they daily recite. The culmination of the first two features of our relationship to God, to acknowledge God as One God and to serve Him with our whole being, lies in a series of directives about how to practically walk out obedience to the Lord and His commandments.) Impress them on your children. (This command regards a directive about our children. Here the Lord's instruction means to teach, to impress upon them, to sharpen God's words so they would pierce into the children and to sharpen the children toward the Lord, and to do so with intense diligence and commitment to the charge. We can't leave their instruction to chance or to others. Wherever we leave an unoccupied area of instruction, the vacuum is readily filled with the lies and deceit of the world. We have a responsibility to our descendants, both to our natural children and to our spiritual offspring, to teach them about the Lord, about His Lordship, about His faithful commitment to us, about what is due to Him, and about His requirements for us.)
