\u201cHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.\u00a0You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.\u00a0And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.\u00a0You shall teach them diligently to your children, 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.\u00a0You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.\u00a0You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.\u201d \u2013 Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (ESV)<\/p>\n
Cultivating a love of the Lord in our children\u2019s hearts is an important part of our role as parents.\u00a0 And while instructing them in God\u2019s Word is an integral part of that nourishment, we also need to remember that our children watch and emulate our words and actions as well.\u00a0 The best way to raise God-loving, respectful, humble, giving children is to live our own lives that way. \u00a0Do you show your children the light of Christ each day, or is it \u201cDo what I say, not what I do\u201d?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.\u00a0You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.\u00a0And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.\u00a0You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[1229,3194,1110,1391,2118,2085,2117,2116,2115],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-book-of-deuteronomy","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-deuteronomy","tag-gods-word","tag-gold-loving-children","tag-light-of-christ","tag-love-god","tag-love-the-lord","tag-teach-our-children"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}