Tattoo your Words on My Mind and Heart
Deuteronomy 11:18-20 You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,
Joshua 1:8 this Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success .
Psalm 1:2-3 ...but whose delight is in the Law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither–whatever they do prospers.
Psalm 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; His steps do not slip.
Psalm 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Proverbs 3:3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you: bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 4:20-21 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Proverbs 7:1-3 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 8:32-36 And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it. Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD, but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 9:9-10 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Hold One is insight.
Jeremiah 31:33-34 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD, ‘ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive theit iniquity and I will remember their sin no more.”
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
So many verses are important to me at different moments in my life. Sometimes, it is verses about anxiety, sometimes, it is about waiting on God’s timing, and there are many other verses that have brought me realization of different sins I commit, flaws I have, needing the Holy Spirit to help me become better and closer to Jesus. I can recall many verses but not always what book, what actual verse number it is from. But I can remember the verse itself–just not who wrote God’s words and in what book. I value what I know about different verses, the different stories, and different mostly me who were heroes of the time. But there was Deborah, Esther, Rahab, Ruth, and Mary. Then in the New Testament–again we have Mary, Elizabeth, Mary Magdalene, Lydia of Thyatira, Priscilla, and others.
I find it amazing that so many women who were not Israeli–Ruth, a Moabite, Rahab, a Canaanite, who chose to live in the Israeli culture, knowing that God loved them and God would always be there. and Esther, although an Israelite was raised during the Babylonian Empire, chosen to live in the King’s court, and when she learned from her uncle, Mordecai, that the Israelites were going to be destroyed and why, and he challenged her to go to the King, her husband and seek his decision on the knowledge of this destruction. She feared for her life; but she told her maidens to fast and pray for three days and then she would go to the King. When she presented the case for the Israelis, the king ordered Hama hung from the gallows he had built to hang Mordecai.
God realized that even though the people had seen the sacrifice of animals for their sin, innocent, sweet, young animals were being slaughtered for the sins of THEMSELVES, for one person who committed a sin and now had to hold a hand on the animals which had created AN sin, and yet would now be the atoning sin offering for me, my sin. . . Definitely, no sin coming from this innocent animal. But God saw that these sacrifices only touched the hearts of his people for a few moments, then they felt relieved their sins were forgiven at the life of an innocent animal, so they could go on–doing the best they could. But for the most part, it was not a true remorse, not a recognition of true sin, true insult toward God. And because God created us with free will, and the ability to choose, we more undoubtedly choose to sin. We want what we want when we want it.
But God has also told us that if we imprint His words, His commands, His guidance on our hearts, then we have all the “tools” to succeed in life. We have a Savior who, if we accept Him as our Lord and are willing to follow Him, He, upon His death and resurrection back to heaven sat in the right seat beside His Father, gave us the Holy Spirit, and His words, and we can thus have them imprinted on our hearts–it is within us–in our minds and our hearts. The Holy Spirit lives within us, and the words of God, Creator and His Son can be tattooed into our minds and hearts the more we read, the more we study, digest and inhale. We find strength, guidance, wisdom, learn patience, self control, kindness, tolerance, and love. Because we have been forgiven, our wicked sins forgiven because of Jesus’ sacrifice and therefore the atonement of OUR sins, we learn to forgive–and how important that is to OUR lives, not necessarily to the one we are forgiving. We learn God’s plan and wishes for our lives, how to achieve His purpose, the reason He created us.
It is such a relief to me to know that the Holy Spirit resides in me, reminds me of verses as necessary, guides my paths, and corrects me when I have messed up. I am so thankful to have some of your words imprinted in my mind and heart. Thank You for me and ‘mybellaviews.’
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