February 2, 2024

Deuteronomy 6.6–9 (NIV)
“These commands that I give you . . . are to be upon 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. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”

When people say they wish they could watch more football, or they wish they could spend more time on the Internet, most of them will actually find a way to do just that. But when . . . people . . . say they wish they knew the Bible better, will they actually set out to do it?*

God’s Word is more than just a matter of knowledge. It goes to the heart and pumps through the veins and mingles with the breath and emerges in our conversation. We should talk about his Word in every conscious moment – at home and on the road, lying down or up and about. It should saturate everything we do, say and think every day.

  

The Israelites did not have individual copies of the scripture to carry with them or to place on the coffee table at home, so when they needed reminders of what the Word said, they had only to look in the mirror or check their hands or look up at the doorframe. If you have trouble remembering the Word, post it where you can see it: on the mirror; on the refrigerator door; in a strategic spot on your desk; on the dashboard of your car. Set a goal to memorize a verse a week. Immerse yourself in it daily.

  

As one of my Bible college professors used to say: “There can be no spiritual growth apart from getting into the Word for yourself.” I challenge you to read the Bible daily and see how you grow!

Scripture says far more about meditating on God’s Word than defending it.*

EXTRA SPLASH: In other words:  “Keep the law before you always and well in mind, no matter what you set your hands to do.” See also Deuteronomy 11.18-20.