Tell Me Again

December 12, 2022

“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Why do we need to keep telling the stories and principles of the Bible to the next and next generations? We do it becomes it describes a pattern of how to live. It’s a pattern that has worked for us, and it has worked for a hundred generations before us. Obviously, it’s a way of life laid out by the best authority, God himself. Who best would know how a life should be lived, but the one who planned it and put it in place at the beginning?

At times we want to make our own choices, and our own mistakes. Each of us wastes a good chunk of life trying to head our own way. When we look back on our choices later, we find we could have avoided several dead-end paths by choosing God’s way. It may not have looked like the best path at the time, but faith in God really would have been best.

That’s why I need to hear the simple Christmas story again each year. God chose to come to our world through birth to a human. He went through childhood and experienced all the normal ‘growing pains’ that we experience. He knows what we’re facing, not just from an outside perspective.

This greatest event of all time, God come to earth, was announced by a huge numbers of angels to Bethlehem shepherds, then displayed to ‘wise men’ by the wonder of a star that led them to Bethlehem and pointed out a particular building where the God-child was. It really happened.

I want to hear the story over and over. I need to understand what great extent God would go to save us. I want to plant God’s words deep in my heart. I want to really live.