The Dash – Intentional Investments
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If you don’t INTENTIONALLY give the RIGHT things, you’ll ACCIDENTALLY give WRONG things.
We give them PRAISE they don’t DESERVE.
We give them THINGS they didn’t EARN.
We give them FREEDOMS they can’t HANDLE.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)
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 on 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.
3 Things to Give the Next Gen.:
- A COMMUNITY worth HAVING.
Deuteronomy 6:4 (NIV)
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
- A STANDARD worth ACHIEVING.
Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
1 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV)
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
Gradually transfer our children’s DEPENDENCE away from US, until it solely rests on GOD.
- A FAITH worth REPRODUCING.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV)
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 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.
BE what you want to SEE.