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ОглавлениеLOVE FOR GOD IN SPEECH.
Fifth verse of the Shema’:
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children;
And thou shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house
and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down
and when thou risest up.
1. God commands parents to teach their children to love Him with all their heart, with all their soul and with all their might.
2. Therefore we must honor our parents and love them because they teach us what is necessary for our right conduct.
3. We must speak of our love for God and prove that it is real and influences our conduct at all times.
4. Our love for God should make us have love in our homes.
5. Our love for God should influence our conduct out of our homes.
6. Our love for God should, when we retire, make us grateful for all His love and protection during the day that has passed. It is also wise to examine our conduct of the day, before closing our eyes, feeling that God is judging our self-examination.
7. Our love for God should, when we rise up, make us trust in Him for His help and blessing during the day which is beginning. Nor should we forget to be grateful for His loving care of our dear ones and of ourselves during the night.
*8. The duty of parents to give their children a religious education is frequently repeated in the Bible. Because, without religious education, our characters cannot be fully developed. We will become selfish, worldly and unsympathetic.
9. A religious education trains us to do our duty to God, to man and to ourselves.
10. Our duty to God is to know Him, to reverence Him, to love Him and to serve Him.
11. Our duty to man is to love our neighbor as ourselves and never to do to him what we would not like him to do to us.
12. Our duty to ourselves is to get the best education possible in religion and in all subjects, to take care of our health and never to lose the respect of our neighbors or our own self-respect.
13. We know God by studying what the Bible and Nature around us tell us about Him, and by our own experiences of His justice and goodness.
14. We reverence Him when we think how great He is and how little we are, how good and forbearing He is and how unworthy of His love we often are.
15. We love Him when our conduct proves our desire to please Him, through the sacrifices we make for Him.
16. We serve Him when we perform the duties He gives us.
17. Our knowledge, reverence, love and service of God are often expressed by prayer.
18. Prayer can be praise, thanksgiving or supplication.
19. Praise of God means declaring His greatness or majesty.
20. Thanksgiving to God means acknowledgment of His goodness.
21. Supplication to God means asking His help or pardon.
BIBLE QUOTATIONS.
2. Honor thy father and thy mother.—Ex. xx, 12.
7. To declare Thy loving kindness in the morning and Thy faithfulness in the night.—Psalm xcii. 2.
10. Let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving kindness, judgment and righteousness on earth; for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.—Jerem. x, 24.
And now, Israel, what doth the Lord require of thee, but to revere the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; to keep the commandments of the Lord, and His statutes, which I command thee this day for thy happiness?—Deut. x, 12-13.
11. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.—Lev. xix, 18.
12. Take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently.—Deut. iv, 9.
13. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of His might and that He is strong in power; not one faileth.—Isa. xl, 26.
14. I am unworthy of the least of all the kindnesses and the truth which Thou hast done for Thy servant.—Gen. xxxii, 10.
19. O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all; the Earth is full of Thy possessions.—Psalm civ, 24.
20. O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His loving kindness endureth for ever.—Psalm cxxxvi, 1.
21. Hear my prayer, O God.—Psalm liv, 2.
