Out of the past unto the present. When you are writing the Word of God on your hearts, on the door posts and teaching your children as you sit and as you walk along and they ask you about the testimonies, teach them to do good and right in the sight of God, to respect Him, serve and worship so they will have a good life. Teach them these that we can march in and possess the land that God has promised while all our enemies scatter left and right exactly like God said.
The next time they ask "why all the requirements"?
We are to tell them this is love and not mere requirements and we will tell them about the bondages we were released from that we would always honor God. (Deuteronomy 6: 18-23 paraphrased)
God had already shown us...in dreams, visions by the Holy Spirit what is to come.
Excitedly and with great joy I share that He is bringing us into a good land, a land of brooks and of water and rivers, of fountains and springs and lakes that flow from streams out of valleys and hills. Its a land where you will never go hungry, always food at the table...wheat, barley, vines, figs, pomegranates, olives oil and honey and there will always be enough.. Its a place that there is great provision, where you will get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills. You will be satisfied so I will always teach you to be thankful and bless God for all the good that is being given so that as you are satisfied with all that is given you don't become unthankful that you don't become full of yourself and lose sight of what has been given and worse be unable to minister and love others as we are to do. (Paraphrased Deuteronomy 7) God is a God of life and these aren't really rules, but the law of love that is much higher. This is the same sweet love we have been taught so that our lives are put together in His presence just as He has asked us to be in this God-kind of love and be near Him always.
There is a fluid kind of love that should be with constancy that motivates your heart to love others with wisdom, truth and the God-kind of love.
Tell them,as in (Paraphrased, Deuteronomy 11:11-14) to worship, to drink the rain from heaven (meaning to bask in all that God gives). In this land, unlike before, God is giving to possess, the eyes of the Lord is always on it from the beginning to the year unto the end that you may gather your grain, your new wine and your oil. There wills to be plenty.
You give attention to the earth and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide their grain. For so you have prepared it. (Psalm 65:9) You water it ridges abundantly, you settle its furrows, you make it soft with showers and you bless its growth. (Psalm 65:10) You crown the year with Your goodness (bountiful harvest) and the paths drip with abundance. (Psalm 65:11)...even the hard pathways there is overflow with abundance. We all shout and sing for joy, for God is good. (Psalm 65:13)...from the past unto the present.
