I am Challenged......

This year I have been reading through the Bible chronologically. I have just recently started doing it during my baby's earlier morning feeding. Its a time that all is quiet and a time I know I will get it done. The other day I was challenged by a friend who is also reading through the Bible in a year, actually that is the reason I am doing it. She started a facebook group and we are all holding each other accountable to reading through it in a year. Anyway, so I have been really trying to focus on the words not just for mere reading sake but to also take it to heart.So I was reading this morning in Deuteronomy chapters 6-9, but I only made it through 6 and 7 before my heart started to be challenged.
First of all, in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 is says.
"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."

This section of scripture has always been a challenge to me. I just didn't remember where to find it until now. We are to love God with all that we have. He has given his Word to be written on our hearts. The only way to write God's Word on our hearts is really to take time and KNOW his Words. To know his Words we need to spend quality time in it. I read most of the time for the sake of reading it, but this morning I allowed myself to be challenged. Here we are challenged to have God's Word/laws living through every facet of our lives. We are to teach our children about God throughout our everyday life. He is suppose to be present at all times. We are to take it with us wherever we go.
I am going to be blunt and honest, I do not live by this standard that God wants us to live by. It is not a choice that I have personally made. I know that it is a choice I should make. But to be honest I know that as hard as I tried I wouldn't be faithful to doing it all the time. So I guess the challenge in this for me is to learn how to instill more of God in my everyday life so that it spills over into my boys' life. I want this, I just don't know how to do it. One of the ways I am starting to teach my oldest is by starting to teach him Bible verses and read his children's Bible. That is some ways that I can be faithful to teaching him.

Take me forward to my reading in Deuteronomy 7 and there was again another verse that stuck out to me. Deut. 7:6 says "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. " The part in this verse that really sticks out to me is that we are "his treasured possession." I have so often beaten myself down in the past and still do to this day. I know that it is talking about the Israelites here but we can definitely apply this to our own lives. I am chosen by God because He loves me. I am his treasured possession. I have such joy at this moment in time knowing that I am his and his alone! This too is often hard for me to constantly remember in my life but I am also up for continued challenge and growth in this area of my life.
So know that you know what my thoughts were from my reading this morning I hope it can be a bit of challenge to you. When you get in the Word to read it, try to dig deep into it and see what God has for you in it!