Walk of Life, Day 7 – July 2020 – Thoughts from the Book of Proverbs
Proverbs 7:3. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (NIV)
These words left me pondering. Every single day, I am writing something on the tablet of my heart. I hear a lot of things, see a lot of things, read a lot, visit places, every single time, there are some things that I willingly register in my mind, I absorb it, I take it in, and it is engraved on the tablet of my heart.
These engravings last a lifetime, there are a lot of bible verses, poems, stories, fairy tales that we heard when we are young and they actually remain there forever engraved. This verse is emphasizing on the fact that we need to write the Word of God on the tablets of our hearts. Bind them on your fingers means adorn them as you would a ring on your finger, something that you would carry with you wherever you go.
The commandments of the Lord need to be taken seriously. It is not something that you can be casual about. They need to be safeguarded as you would the apple of your eye. We all know that lying is a sin, and remember all lies be they black or white are a transgression of God’s command. How easily we lie, just to escape, if that commandment was written loud and bold on the tablet of my heart, I would never dare to say a lie. This applies for so many other things that we know have been commanded by God and we take it very lightly.
Not only do we need to keep the commandments of God to live, but also we need to keep them as those who cannot live without them. The word of Christ should dwell in us richly so we are protected from the fatal effects of our own passions and the traps of the devil.
“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45 NKJV).
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. If you are filled in abundance with the Word of God or in other words if you are filled with the life of the Lord Jesus, life will flow out. What you write on your heart is what will be manifest by your life. Be very careful of what you give the first place for in your heart and every word that you are engraving because that is exactly what your life will speak.
“Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.” (2 Corinthians 3:3)
In the words of Billy Graham “We are the Bibles the world is reading, we are the creeds the word is needing, we are the sermons the world is needing.”
We need to fill our hearts with the Lord’s Word so the world may see us as living testaments who would proclaim His glory.
What am I writing on the tablet of my heart? If someone were to look into my heart what would be the abundance found there?
Have I stored the Word of God so richly in my heart?
Does my life show forth Christ in whatever I do?
