Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Love and Remember the LORD Your God
1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Remembering Jesus
23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
Luke 22:14-30
The LORD's Last Supper
14 When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table. 15 And he said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. 16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”
17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. 18 For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
20 In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 21 But the hand of him who is going to betray me is with mine on the table. 22 The Son of Man will go as it has been decreed. But woe to that man who betrays him!” 23 They began to question among themselves which of them it might be who would do this.
24 A dispute also arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest. 25 Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26 But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. 28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29 And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 6:31-34
Seek God's Kingdom First
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
Respect and Love God
13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole [duty] of man.
John 10:10
Jesus Came So We May Live Life Abundantly
10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
When Moses wrote in Deuteronomy, he told us to remember the things that God has done and will do...We are to place those things of God upon our hearts...Impress those things of God on your children...Talk about the Holy things of the LORD and when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up...Tie the things of the LORD as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads...Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates...All these things were to be done, to remember the LORD our God...God wants to be with us not only part of the time, but always...He wants to be the center of our lives...
One would think it would be easy to remember those things we hold sacred and holy -but we do have lapses...St. Luke wrote about what Jesus said about Him and a good time to remember Him...St. Paul, a good friend of St. Luke, writes about the same thing and when Jesus said was a good time to remember Him...When Jesus had His Last Supper, and gave thanks He broke the bread and ask that whenever we eat we remember Him...St. Paul says when He poured the wine into the cup, He ask again that we remember Him...We are often busy working or doing something that we do not remember Him...But we must take time to eat and to drink...And when we do our eating and drinking, it is a good time to remember our LORD...If we have things such as a necklace, or something our the doorframes of our homes or that gates we enter everyday, we can better remember to keep the Father and Son on our minds..
The mind plays a most important role in our faith...We must remember our LORD to have faith...The more and more we focus on our LORD we will remember Him...The more He is impressed on our minds, the more likely He will be more than something we do each morning (like reading our Bibles) or going to church on Sunday -He will be with us always...When God becomes the central focus of our lives, we become more like Jesus...No one was more focused on God than His Son...The more we are like Jesus, the better we are and the better the world will be...
Jesus teaches us always to put God first, and when we do we will have fewer worries...Solomon in his great wisdom looked at his life and life from all angles and concludes in the Book of Ecclesiastes that respecting and loving God is the purpose of our lives is to keep His commandments...For since He created us making Him the center of their lives should be crucial and the natural thing to do (since He is our Creator)...And when we fail to do this and only make Him part and parcel in our lives, our lives are not what they can be and and we do not live in abundance...