When you are asked....

I am sitting in a quiet place this morning, having enjoyed watching the sun burn away the morning fog, observed the neighborhood deer herd playing in the yard, found peace in the midst of turmoil. Found wisdom in the Word of God and a challenge...

Deuteronomy 6:20 (NKJV) 20 "When your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is the meaning of the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which the LORD our God has commanded you?'

Before you read the response in the next verses...stop for a minute and reflect on your own answer.  

This verse has stopped me "in my tracks" this morning...as I think about the legacy of faith that was passed on to me and changes that have taken place in this country today, I reflect on my own life and ask myself if I have shared the testimonies, statutes and judgments of God with this generation...have I shared  what God says...and lived it before them.  Would one from this generation look at me and see a difference that would cause them to even ask the question?  

We should all wrestle with this question today and strive to take every opportunity to let the love of God shine through us, to bring His peace into turmoil, to live and play in the freedom His love and His ways provides and to be ready to share with the world our own testimony of freedom, salvation, healing, deliverance, and love...

When you are asked in times to come...what will your answer be?

Deuteronomy 6:21 (NKJV) 21 "then you shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deuteronomy 6:23 (NKJV) 23 'Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He swore to our fathers.

Deuteronomy 6:24 (NKJV) 24 'And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 6:25 (NKJV) 25 'Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us.'