{"id":1792,"date":"2007-01-25T02:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T02:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/01\/bible-study-moral-development.html"},"modified":"2007-01-25T02:10:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T02:10:14","slug":"bible-study-moral-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/01\/bible-study-moral-development.html","title":{"rendered":"Bible Study: Moral Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know an expression any more accurate, so I’ve chosen to say that the one who listens to Torah, who delights in God’s Word, develops morally. So Psalm 119:101-102, 104b:
\nI have kept my feet from every evil path
\nso that I might obey your word.
\nI have not departed from your laws,
\nfor you yourself have taught me.
\n… therefore I hate every wrong path.
\nIf we hear God’s Word, if we listen to it and muse on it all day long (v. 97b), it will change our lives. There is a temptation to read the Bible in the morning or in the evening and then be done with it — as if we have done our duty, the way we mow grass or wash the dishes.
\nThere is another way of reading so that the words flood our minds and memories — it takes a little discipline. When the cracks of the day appear, remind ourselves of what we read.
\nI believe this is what the Shema was all about: say it all the time, Deut 6:4-5 says. Why? Because it will flood your mind with the single-most obligation in life: to love God. And Jesus adds Lev 19:18, as I explain in Jesus Creed<\/em>, and then we have the two single-most obligations in life: to love God and to love others.
\nWhen the commands of God flood our minds throughout the day, we can be formed by them; when we read them and then forget them, we can easily miss formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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