Deuteronomy 6:6-9 KJV And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

It does not take long reading through the New Testament to see that God wants His people to be serious about His Word. We see in Deuteronomy 6 that God’s desire was for them to write His commands on their doorposts and teach His Word to their children. They would wear small pouches that held God’s commands strapped to their left hand and forehead. In today’s world, it would be like placing Post-it Notes on our hands and foreheads. God wanted them to be mindful of His Word every day.

The psalmist caught hold of this principle, and we see a clear picture of the value of God’s Word in Psalm 1:1-2 KJV Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I feel as though we have lost the value of meditation in our modern world, especially among Christians. It appears that we have allowed the influence of Eastern culture to rob this word from our vocabulary. Throughout Scripture we are called to meditate on God’s Word. We should pause long enough to see, hear, and feel what God is wanting to tell us every day. We should allow His Word to run through our minds over and over again.

We should take God’s Word and visualize it by taking a principle from the Scriptures and seeing what it would look like to live it out in our lives. We also should internalize the Word through meditation and memorization. This can be accomplished by placing His Word inside us and thus enabling the Spirit to bring it back to our minds in desperate times. Lastly, we need to personalize God’s Word. We can use personal pronouns to pray the Word back to God using “I” and “me” to direct His Word into our hearts. This brings ownership to His promises and His direction for your life.

Let us all become what the psalmist says in Psalm 1:3 KJV And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. By respecting the Word of God, we too can be like that tree planted by the rivers of water.