Reading:
Deuteronomy 6:1-9, 20-25

Again, I introduce the next Sunday School lesson with a series of questions for personal introspection, evaluation, and heart-searching:

“Which the LORD your God commanded to teach you” (1) — Must all I teach be at God’s command as well as be sourced in Him?

Must I always be first and continually a learner of that which I would teach?

What benefits do I derive from being obedient?

What must come before diligent parental teaching?

How do I implement this kind of diligent teaching in the New Testament age?

Similarly, how strongly should I take on my Anabaptist heritage and identity?

“And the LORD commanded us to do all…for our good always” (24) — Is that supposed to be the motivation and goal of my teaching as well?

“And it shall be our righteousness” (25) — Just what is my righteousness?

[The Scriptures say in Deuteronomy 6:24 -- And the LORD commanded us to do all...for our good always]
from Deuteronomy 6:24

Is it this important to me?
Reading:

John 13:31-38

What is it?

What do I do with it?

And how much do I want it?

This much…?

“Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31).

Jesus was going to be betrayed and denied and abandoned.

He was going to suffer and die.

But He saw glory.

His glory and God’s glory.

“I’m half awake now, yet, somehow, that really strikes me,” I wrote at 9:41 this morning (after going to bed after 11:30 last night and getting up at 3:35 this morning to take nephew Robert Nelson to the airport).

[The Scriptures say in John 13:34 -- As I have loved you]
from John 13:34