Daily Verse: Deuteronomy 6:6-9

These commandments that I give you today are to be on 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 I was a child, I thought that for some reason God started and stopped at the doors to the church. Whether I consciously realized it or not, my actions seemed to confirm it. Sadly, that’s an easy trap to fall into. When we are around God’s Word, like we are in church, we are reminded of how our Lord instructs us to live. But when we live that environment, we are quickly inundated with millions of distractions and alternative ideas that cause us to live contrary to God’s commands. In the text above, Moses is relaying to the people what God has told him, specifically the commandments regarding how they are to live. The key part about the text is that it makes it clear that God’s commands are supposed to be a part of every aspect of our lives. There is not a time in our lives where we are not supposed to have God’s Word fresh in our hearts and minds. We are supposed to teach them to our children, discuss them with our neighbors, think about them when are up and about and when we are lying down. In fact, the text above goes so far as to say you should “bind them to your foreheads” so that all will see them and every time you look in the mirror, you too will see them. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean we are to break out the Sharpie and start making notes on our actual face. Rather it is highlighting the importance of making God’s Word spill into every corner of our lives…keeping it fresh in our hearts and minds. But naturally as we get older, our memories grow weaker…and what we read in God’s Word on Sunday might not be so fresh by Wednesday afternoon. That is why we are to daily be in God’s Word…so that we are constantly reminded of how we are to speak, how we are to think, and how we are to act. What a privileged people we are to have God’s Living Word right at our fingertips…day in and day out…providing perfect direction for our lives! May we make it a priority to soak it in daily, letting nothing separate us from its perfect message. To God be the glory!