Fix Them

Deuteronomy 11: Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

I love these verses.  In fact, these are good verses to teach visually with your kids.  Take some bible verses and write them into shapes, or on long pieces of paper, and then physically tie them to each one’s hands and wrap around each one’s forehead.  What a great visual!

It’s interesting that the verse mentions the hands and the foreheads as being the place to bind and imprint the truth of the word.  Our hands can either strike others, or bless them.  And our minds can either move us forward, or keep us in chains.

And it’s so important that his word be a part of our being that we must teach it to our children as well.  When?  Every part of the day!  When we’re at home, when we’re on the road, when we’re going to bed, and when we’re getting up in the morning – all the time.

The truth of the word doesn’t just jump into our psyche and into our spirits by casual encounters.  It takes “fixing” it to our hands and minds.  It takes action on our part to memorize, practice, and believe it.

What are you “fixin’” to do, today, as we might say in Texas?