Keeping the Pace with Rev. Joshua Ssali
Intentionality means teaching as we walk
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Daily Devotional: INTENTIONALITY MEANS TEACHING AS WE WALK The Home Is the Classroom and discipleship is a daily meal. Read Deuteronomy 6:4-8 My home is holy ground. We don’t just make Sunday visits to God — we walk with Him. I will teach as we sit, as we walk, as we lie down, and as we rise. The Word is not an event in my house; it is the atmosphere. _This is true parenting._ “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 6:7 NIV We don’t go to school to learn parenting. Parenting _is_ the school. Moses never said, “Take your children to church once a week for spiritual formation.” He said: do it when you sit, when you walk, when you lie down, and when you get up. That’s four times a day. That’s all day. God designed discipleship to happen daily. The home is the first church. The dinner table is the first altar. The car ride is the first classroom. Bedtime prayers are the first theology lessons. Many parents wait for a “holy moment” to teach their children. But Moses says the holy moments are hidden in the ordinary ones. You gain parenting experience _while_ you parent — in real time, with real issues, using real Scripture. The problem is we separate “spiritual time” from “normal life.” Yet God doesn’t. He wants the Word in the kitchen when the porridge burns. He wants the Word in the taxi in a traffic jam. He wants the Word at bedtime when fear creeps in. If we only speak of God at church, our children will think He only lives at church. But if we speak of God while we walk, they learn He walks with us. Intentionality doesn’t mean long sermons. It means short, repeated truths dropped into normal life. A 30-second truth at breakfast beats a 30-minute lecture once a month. Your words about God, dropped daily into the routine of life, will shape the hardest heart. But it won’t happen in one Sunday. It happens on Monday morning, Tuesday evening, Wednesday on the road… daily. Prayer Lord, forgive me for making faith a Sunday event instead of a daily environment. Open my eyes to see the “road moments” You have already given me. Put Your Word on my tongue when we sit, when we walk, when we lie down, and when we rise. Let my home be a place where You are named, known, and loved. Help me to disciple daily. In Jesus’ name, Amen. By Rev. Joshua Ssali Ssalongo
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