Shema Allegiance

Observant Believers consider the Shema (a liturgical prayer to listen, hear and do), to be the most important part of the prayer service.
Deut. 6:5-9; Mark 12:29-30
The Shema, which begins with the famous verse Listen Israel,The L-rd is G-d, the
L-rd is One! is not a prayer. It is the Believers Pledge of Allegiance, a testimony to His Oneness. Knowing that G-d is One is of primary importance, since the entire religion is based on this principle.
The Shema is a declaration that all the events that happen to us are from the One, the only One. At the and of days we will come to understood how even how the "bad times" was actually for the "good," even though now it is hard to tell.
The chance to say the Shema twice a day, once in the morning prayers and once in the evening prayers, is a way for us to engrain this belief upon us, to keep this idea, so to speak, on our fingertips. Having this belief readily at hand helps a person fulfill another verse from the Shema: And you shall LOVE the Lord your G-d, with all YOUR HEART, with all YOUR SOUL, and with all your resources. What does it mean to love him with all your heart? The Talmud explains that the word "heart" is metaphorical for "desires." Your desires for necessities like bread, water, clothing, and shelter, to make your body stronger to learn and do G-d's Torah!
Love G-d with all your soul, what the Sages did have in mind was that one should love G-d so much, that he would even be willing to give up his life for G-d.
And I will teach them diligently unto my children, and will talk of them when I sit in my house, and when I walk by the way, and when I lie down, and when I rise up.
Whoever fears G-d will endeavor to bring up his children in the way of righteousness, that they also may fear G-d, and that pure and undefiled religion may be preserved in his family through all its generations, not only in word, but in practice also.
You shall begin and end the day with G-d, and thus religion will be the great business of your life. O how good are these sayings, but how little regarded!
You shall bind them for a sign upon your hand
When a person wishes to remember a thing of importance, and is afraid to trust to the common operations of memory, he ties a cord on his hand or finger, or places something out of its usual order, and in view, that his memory may be brought to recollection and his eye affect his heart. G-d, who knows how slow of heart we are to understand, graciously orders us to make use of every help, and through the means of things sensible, to rise to things spiritual.
And I will write them upon the posts of my house, and on my gates.
Always before my eyes, in my coming and going.
I will fear the L-rd my G-d, and serve Him and will swear by His name. I will diligently keep the commandments of the L-rd my G-d, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He has commanded me. And I will do that which is right and good in the sight of the L-rd: that it may be well with me.
The blessing that follows begins with the declaration "True, firm, established, obligatory, proper, lasting, satisfactory, favored, agreeable, pleasing, respected, revered, fit, accepted, good, and valid is this word" (this obligation that we have just recited). Many of the adjectives in this declaration are legal terms used in validating legal agreements. We give the recitation of the Shema the force of an oath, meaning: We solemnly affirm that the obligation we have just recited is valid and binding on us in every way. This makes of the Shema a daily affirmation of allegiance to G-d and to the covenant obligations that allegiance entails.
6:10 …to give you great and goodly cities, which you build not
6:11 ….And houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and wells dig, which you dig not, vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not; when you shall have eaten and be full
6:18 And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of the L-RD: that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the L-RD sward unto your fathers
6:19 To cast out all your enemies from before you…
Isa. 54: 17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper
Deut. 6:22 And the L-rd showed signs and wonders….before our eyes.
We usually fail to appreciate the danger of success and prosperity; we agree there is a theoretical danger in those things, but rarely think it applies to us. In a day of prosperity, we are in great danger of forgetting G-d, our dependence upon Him, our need of Him, and our obligations to Him. When the world smiles we are apt to make our court to it, and expect our happiness in it, and so we forget Him that He is our only portion and rest. When your latter end has greatly increased, remember the smallness of your beginnings. No change of condition will cure a disposition of murmur and fret.
Would you not like to have cities, you did not built to proclaim for the L-rd?
Houses filled with good things that you did not buy?
Water supplied that you did not have to work for?
Food you did not have to plant, yet you have eaten and are full?
Are you ready to possess a good land for the glory of His Kingdom?
Would you not want to see signs and wonders preformed before your own eyes?
When we obey, we will be blessed; when we disobey, we will be cursed. There are the natural consequences of our disobedience, which G-d has not promised to shield us from.