Deuteronomy 11:19-21 And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down… It is a Word directive, explanative, consolatory, inspirational, redemptive. It is God's spoken wisdom for man's active guidance. And the wise man will ponder well these Divine revelations before he sets out, will get a good grip of heaven's instructions and promises before passing on to the stress and strain of conflict. The heart has need to store such things as these in readiness. They are not easily or readily found if left at one side till immediately wanted. It is an easier and wiser course for your railway official to light up his carriages amid broad daylight and before the train starts than it would be to send a man with flaming torch along the roof of a speeding train after it had dashed into the darkness of a tunnel. The ship that sails forth well equipped does not put her lifeboats in the hold because the day is fine — she carries them taut, furnished, ready fitted for immediate use, prepared beforehand even down to details for any moment's service. So must we equip ourselves with Divine wisdom for life's voyage. "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly." Let it be a perpetual remembrance. Its interpretation of life's meaning and issue, its solution of the ways of Providence, its new and chivalrous setting of old moral obligations, its bright-hued promises, above all its message of grace to the needy soul — let us take a lively realisation of these truths with us. (C. A. Berry, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. |
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