Deuteronomy 11:18

Deuteronomy 11:18 says, Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.  God through Moses told the people of Israel that they were to lay up His word in their heart and soul.  It was to become their innermost guiding force, just as it should be for us today.  God also said that they were to physically display His word before their eyes continually.  The Holy Spirit will keep God's laws always in front of us as Christians if we allow Him to.  Verse nineteen adds, And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  God said they were to teach His words to their children continually, all day long everyday.  This could only happen if the parents were living their lives guided by God's word.  We cannot expect our children to know God's word if we do not teach it to them daily.  Sending or even taking them to church once a week will not accomplish what God wants us to do for our children.  Verse twenty continues, And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:  God said they were to write His words on their door posts and their gates, so that they would see them going out and coming in.  As followers of Christ, we are to write God's word in our heart, so that it is always with us.  Verse twenty-one states, That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.  God told them that if they did this that their days would be multiplied as days of heaven upon the earth.  As Christians, we are already a part of God's everlasting Kingdom, even as we live here on the earth.  I believe that God expects us to live as though we know that.  Verse twenty-two adds, For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;  Verse twenty-three continues, Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.  These two verses were an if, then statement.  If the people of Israel would keep God's laws, then He would drive out all the nations before them.  If we expect God to bless us and keep us safe today, then we must live by faith in His word.  Verse twenty-four says, Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. God said that if they obeyed Him and taught their children to do so that He would give them all of the Promised Land.  We have a much greater everlasting home in heaven if we put our  faith in Jesus Christ.  Once we do, we are then to keep God's laws and teach them to our children.  Verse twenty-five adds, There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.  Though people of the world today may not fear us as Christians, God has already secured our everlasting victory over them, so we should never live our lives in fear of what they might do to us. Verse twenty-five continues, There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.  Moses said that no one would be able to stand before them because God would be able to stand before them because God would put the fear of Him in their enemies.  Today though, we are not to destroy our enemies, but are to reach out to them with God's love and the gospel of Christ.