“I have hidden your word in my heart” Psalms 119:11
The other day, I looked out our back window to see a little, gray squirrel digging around for (I’m assuming) some nuts he must have buried there earlier. I told my son that squirrels are very busy this time of the year because they instinctively know winter is coming. Winter- where there will be no nuts. So they spend this time gathering food to store away.
I find that’s how God’s Word works in my heart. It’s the surest way I hear from Him. I try to make time to read His word daily. Because I have to check it off my religious duty list? No, but because it is bread (or rice or whatever daily staple you choose) to my spirit. During the winter seasons of life, it is what I fall back on. I dig up the words that I heard and I chew on them again. And again, they give me life and sustain me during barren times.
Psalms 119:11 goes onto say that hiding God’s word in your heart keeps a person from sinning against God. Because I love God, I don’t want to hurt him. Do I mess up? Of course. But hiding God’s word in my heart keeps me close to Him, helps me to know Him. Then I am not as tempted during desert times to accuse God of not looking out for me.
It was the Word that Jesus used in his desert times to resist the suggestions of Satan (see Matthew 4:1-11). Because Jesus had the Word stored up in His heart, He knew the Truth from the suggested lie (that sounded a lot like the truth).
Let’s all draw closer to Him by taking time to hear what He would have to say to us this day through His Word.
