Deuteronomy 11

Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning until you fall into bed at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities.

(Deu 11:18-20)

What words are we talking about here? What words were the Israelites to do this with? These are the words that God had spoken to them, the words that Moses was recounting for them. The commands, the promises, the prophecies, the truths about who God was… These words are the very Word of God. They weren’t to allow these words that God had spoken to “go in one ear and out the other”, instead they were to allow them to become a part of them.

Look at the practical steps Moses lays out to assist them as they seek to hide these words in their hearts:

1. Tie them on your hands
2. Put them on your foreheads
3. teach them to your children
4. talk about them always… at home, away from home, from the time you get up until the time you lay down.
5. Put them on the walls
6. Put them on the gates

The idea is to keep them in front of you all the time! These suggestions that Moses gives can still be carried out today. Think about it, what do you have hanging on your walls? What do you talk about when you are a t home with your family? What do you talk about when you are out with your friends? What occupies your thoughts in the morning? What occupies your thoughts in the middle of the day? What do you think about when you lay down at night? What kind of things are you teaching your younger brothers and sisters, both in the words you speak AND the things you do? A lot of questions??? I think they all deserve a little thought.

Look at the 2 parts of your body that Moses says to put God’s Word. The hand, and the forehead. What is right behind your forehead? Your brain! That is where we do our thinking. What about our hands? That is where we do our working! Think the Bible, do the Bible, let the Bible GET IN YOU, so you can LIVE THE BIBLE OUT!

In John 15 Jesus said, “Abide in Me, and let My Word’s abide in you”. In Colossians Paul Exhorts us to “let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly” – This could literally translate let it take root deep in your heart! God wants His word to fill us up, so He can work in and through us. We cannot know His will if we don’t know His Word.

Read Psalm 1 today, and think about the part that the Word of God plays in the life of the “blessed” man, the Godly man. I pray it will inspire you to become a man or woman of God’s Word.