Remember

“Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.” Deuteronomy‬ ‭11‬:‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Our foreheads indicated where our minds are and the place we process thought. Our hands represent doing. Our hands can do good or evil. Out of our mouths can come forth good and evil, we must choose to do good.

The Jews went on to forget the Lord. Although he had brought them into the promised land after the desth of Joshua and the ones who knew this experience, men did what was right in their own eyes. Obviously the people did not heed all they were told in the chapter. The second verse of this chapter warns the people that their children did not experience God like they did and would need to be taught. This did not happen.

Orthodox Jews wear little boxes called phylacteries on their foreheads and wrists that contain scripture when they go to morning prayer, so as to obey this command. We Christians study our bibles and memorise scripture. However, if we do not do what the scripture tells us, we waste our time.

Scripture must order our lives, challenge our hearts and direct our steps. We must teach our children or they will go their own way. The Bible carries a promise: ‘teach your children the way they should go so that when they are old they will not depart from it’. Proverbs 22:6.