Deut 11:18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
20 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth.
The above verse was God’s call to Israel His people following the Israelites’ 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, approximately 1490-1450 B.C. Yahweh who brought them out from Israel with His strong hand and mighty arm is now the strategy for remaining blessed and in favour in the eyes of God. He says the word of God has to be written in our hearts and soul, in our hand, always before our eyes.
We are told to teach the word of God to our children, we must speak the word of God when we sit in our house, when we walk, when we lie down and when we rise up. We are to write on our door posts of our house and our gates. Not wake up and check Whatsapp, not Facebook, not You Tube, not call up people but the WORD of GOD be in us, around us and before us all the time. The benefit of this is that we and our children will increase in all areas of our life because God has made a covenant with His people. We have to keep our side of the covenant to obey Him.
Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
This verse says if we are not speaking the word of God,instead the facts, figures, situations and have the language of the world, then we don’t have light in us. Jesus said He is the light of the world. John 8:12 Hence, it means if our words are not aligned to the word of God or if we don’t speak the word of God, we don’t have Jesus in us, we may claim to be of Jesus , we may be going through the motions yet we have no Jesus in us according to this verse. We are very diligent to check various blood tests etc., but do we conduct a spiritual test to check if we are aligned to what God says?
Ps 119:9-11 says the word of God convicts us of sin and it can cleanse us, lead us in righteousness.
Ps 119:105 says it’s a lamp unto our feet and light to our path, so we need not grope in darkness.
Job 23:12, Job said he has treasured the word of God in his mouth more than bread, we know that Job went through many trials but he came out victorious and was compensated.
Isaiah 40:8 entire universe may cease to be but not the word of God, it shall stand forever.
Ephesians 6:17 says the word of God is the sword of the Spirit.
Romans 12:2 says the word transforms us by its power, so it has power. The Lord asked Jeremiah “Is not My word like a fire?” “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? ( Jer 23:29). Let us ensure to saturate ourselves with the word of God.
Sol.Lalitha Menon