Daily Meditation
20 And thou shalt
write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
Today’s Reading
Deuteronomy
Chapter 11
Thou Shalt Love The
Lord Thy God
1 Therefore thou
shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his
judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2 And know ye this day: for I speak not
with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the
chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his
stretched out arm, 3 and his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst
of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4 and what he
did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he
made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and
how the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 and what he did unto you in
the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6 and what he did unto Dathan
and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her
mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all
the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 but
your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did. 8 Therefore
shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be
strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9 and that
ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to
give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 For the land,
whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence
ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a
garden of herbs: 11 but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of
hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 a land which
the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it,
from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
13 And it shall come
to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command
you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul, 14 that I will give you the rain of your land in his
due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy
corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for
thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that
your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and
worship them; 17 and then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut
up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit;
and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
18 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. 19 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. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and
upon thy gates: 21 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.
22 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; 23 then
will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess
greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 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. 25 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.
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