"My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your
mother's teachings. Bind them upon your heart forever, fasten them
around your neck. When you walk, they will guide you; when you
sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you."
(Proverbs 6:20-22)
"God, there, is speaking to us as His children.
He's telling us that His commands and His teachings are something
that is alive. They are not just words on paper. They are not just abstract
ideas or concepts, but something that will keep us company, if we cling
to them, if we will absorb them.
I found that so true when I first came to know the Lord as a soldier
in the British army in the deserts of North Africa on the battlefield,
I would carry my pocket Bible with me. Every spare moment I had,
I would pull it out and begin to read it. And then I decided how
true it was: When I walked, it guided me.
I had communion with God.
And, in a certain sense, I was literally protected by
the presence of God around me. And that presence was
around me because of my attitude to His Word, because I lived in
His Word, I meditated in His Word, I kept His teaching
and His commandments.
God's Word is something alive, something personal.
Don't let it become a religion or an abstraction for you. But learn
to live with it and walk with it and let it talk to you."
"The Word Is Your Guide"
Derek Vaughan Prince
(1915-2003)
American Bible teacher
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