Psalm 119:98 Strap it on Your Forehead

Your commands are always with meand make me wiser than my enemies.

Psalm 119:98

When my 81-year-old mother was in the hospital with heart problems, they placed what looked like a piece of adhesive-backed paper on her skin just below the collar bone. Scribbled on the patch was the word "NITRO".

It was a nitroglycerin patch, similar to a smoker's patch. It was designed to deliver a slow and steady supply of the drug into her system.

Wouldn't it be great if some publishing house would come out with the Dermal Patch Version of the Bible? Slap it onto your skin and it delivers a steady dose of God's Word into your system.

Some people would fasten it onto their foreheads, delivering the teachings of the Bible directly into their minds. Perhaps better would be to fasten the patch over your heart. Thy Word have I delivered dermally into my heart that I might not sin against Thee.

“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.Deuteronomy 6:4-9

The author of that scripture never intended for the Israelites to actually strap the words of the Word to their foreheads. But they did it anyway, wearing little boxes called tefellin or phylacteries on their foreheads, filled with scriptures.

We don't need a phylactery and we don't need an adhesive patch. If we structure our days and order our habits in such a way that we continually, repeatedly bathe our hearts in the Word and in prayer, then we can have the same sort of life-changing absorption of the God's ways into our heart.

That's meditation.

It's not a bad idea to create habits in your day that remind you to meditate on the Word. Create opportunities to to talk about the scriptures with others. Schedule times to read and memorize the Word. Post scriptures on your bathroom mirror and on the refrigerator door. Configure your online or smart phone calendar to pop up scripture reminders. Follow Twitter accounts that provide daily scriptures.

Make a plan to keep His commands always with you on the road of life.