"Listen, Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart."
Think about all the words we are presented with in a day's time...television blasts words at us, newspapers are full of words, the Internet has more words available to us than we could read in a lifetime! Add to that radio, movies, magazines, books, e-mails, junk mail, letters...wait, does anyone still write letters? Point is, we have so many words that come into our heads and which ones do we give top priority?
Which words do your children see you pouring over on a daily basis? Which words have the most influence in your decision making? What would happen in our lives if it were God's words that were predominant in our heads at all times. If we allowed them to drowned out the words that were in opposition to His ways for our lives, to block out the words that may make us think less of ourselves than God designed us to be, to override the words that elevate worldliness over godliness.
We are told to keep God's words in our heart. Let's not put His words at the bottom of our list of reading and squeeze them into our hearts, let's fill our hearts with His words. Let's take every opportunity to open our hearts to His word, though reading the Bible, listening to good preaching, taking advantage of the Internet for its great ability to provide us with wonderful study tools, listening to great hymns and praise music. Let our hearts overflow with His words....there should be nothing sweeter to our ears.
Think about all the words we are presented with in a day's time...television blasts words at us, newspapers are full of words, the Internet has more words available to us than we could read in a lifetime! Add to that radio, movies, magazines, books, e-mails, junk mail, letters...wait, does anyone still write letters? Point is, we have so many words that come into our heads and which ones do we give top priority?We are told to keep God's words in our heart. Let's not put His words at the bottom of our list of reading and squeeze them into our hearts, let's fill our hearts with His words. Let's take every opportunity to open our hearts to His word, though reading the Bible, listening to good preaching, taking advantage of the Internet for its great ability to provide us with wonderful study tools, listening to great hymns and praise music. Let our hearts overflow with His words....there should be nothing sweeter to our ears.
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