Deuteronomy 6:20 English Standard Version (ESV) When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?’

The assumption in this verse is that we have presented our testimonies, statutes and rules that the Lord our God has given us as commandments. Those are three different things.

In this day and age our testimonies will be much different than those that lived through the Exodus. Our testimonies will not align themselves with the answers that follow here.

Just how do we answer for ourselves when and if our children ask us to explain what we believe and why?

When we have children before we submit to Christ’s Lordship we will find ourselves answering why our behavior has changed. If the question does not come up then we must consider one of two things, we have not changed or our children are too frightened to ask.

Sudden changes in adults with children of a certain age brings into question the relationship we have with our children. How we convey the Word of Truth to them may be clumsy at first because we are babes in Christ and have not learned ourselves all that needs to be understood.

Blessed are those who have come to Christ before they have children.That is not always the situation.

It is entirely possible that even children raised in a Christian home may have questions about these three things. As such we should all be prepared to give a reasonable understanding of testimony, statutes and rules.

1 Do you have a testimony of how God changed your life?

2 Do you have a proper understanding of statutes?

3 What rules do you live by?

It is apparent to me at the moment that one other aspect has come into play.

Have we considered a need to answer for ourselves why we believe and act as we do?

A search for presumption discovered six results in the ESV. 

1 faulty judgment 2 pride 3 connections 4 right worship 5 faulty expectations 6 right posture

It is difficult to balance all the aspects of presumptions because they are not all bad for us. 

God help us!

Numbers 14:14 But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed out of the camp.

Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’

Matthew 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

Luke 7:7 Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed.

Romans 2:4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Jude 1:9 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

Notice carefully that I presumed to understand how to title each verse is connected with the use of presumption. That does not make me right or wrong and I must allow others the right to see the meanings of presumption as the Lord leads them in understanding.

That is one more aspect of presumption, that others will automatically understand us just because we have some level of confidence in our presentation of issues. Consider this nothing more than a postulate.

The only way to avoid assumptions is to check with the Author.