"6. And these words which I command You today shall be in your heart. 7. 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. 8. 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. 10. So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities, which you did not build, 11. houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant-when you have eaten and are full- 12.then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."
This passage starts out with how the Word should be in our hearts, and how we should teach the Word to our children, engaging them in conversation about the Word as we take walks, as we get ready for bed, as we get up in the morning and prepare to face the day. The passage goes even further saying we should bind them as a sign on our hands and attach little placards to our foreheads, so that the Word is always in front of our eyes. I believe these are metaphors urging us to always be conscious of God's Word in our lives. This is not a consciousness for judging but a consciousness for loving.
We should be teaching the word of Love to our children, we should be reminding our children that they are to "love one another" while sitting around in the house, when taking a walk around the neighborhood, when getting ready to lie down for the night, when getting up and preparing to face the day together.
I know the title of the post is about reaping the benefits of work others have done building up spaces we now live in. And yes, that's an economy of "getting something for nothing," but the emphasis is on having the Word of God (the word of Love) in our hearts and focusing on that night and day. If we could just get ourselves to focus on this one thing only, our lives would be so much richer.
