Deuteronomy 11:18-21 “So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may flourish in the land the Lord swore to give you ancestors.”

What kind of Father would God be if all he told us to do was to ‘remember’ without teaching us how to do it? When God says to tie his words to our hands he is telling us that we remember by actually acting on His words. Wearing them on our foreheads is symbolic of keeping them always in our minds. We are to teach them to our children for they need to know the darkness their Heavenly Father delivered them from. He instructs us to talk about it both at home and when we travel. When things are repeated often they are remembered best. We should be thinking on God’s promises and those victories he has given us both in the morning when we rise and at night when we remember to thank him before laying down to rest. We write them on our doorposts so that we might be reminded as we come and go from our homes and on our gates as a sign to those who pass by or visit that we are children of the Most High God. In all these ways, he has led us from darkness into a wonderful new light.

Pray: Holy Father, you have made it so clear the many ways that I can preserve the memory of those things you have taught me, showed me, and promised me. You demonstrate time and again your great love for me by giving me the means to not only live in this dark world but to live in abundance as I remember all you have done. Thank you, gracious Father, for teaching me so that my children will prosper and walk in the light and so my life can be a testament to your ever present grace and love. In my Savior’s blessed name I give you thanks – Amen