"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"- Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV).
Jesus should frequently be on our lips and on our hips. We should walk the walk and talk the talk. OK, the first reference was really a food reference (forgive me Lord), but I'm trying to make a point. Walking the walk involves our hips. Our children listen and watch us, later to imitate us. A student did a parody of me during class one year. Her clothes, including the glasses, reflected me. Her words, her statements, were repeated verbatim as mine. She marched up and down the familiar path I normally walked, using my posture. She was me! It was the aping of two actions that surprised me: she pushed her glasses up with her index finger and repeatedly ran her tongue over her front teeth. Yes, I knew I did those, but not noticeably! What do you want your children to remember about you? Notice the first two words of today's verse. My student mimicked the influence, word and action, known and unknown, I had on those young people entrusted to me. Forgive me Lord and help me clearly mimic your Son, who always had Your name on His lips and hips.
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