Daily Bible Nugget #231, Deuteronomy 6:6

The Nugget:

Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

My Comment:

The Scriptures should be laid up in the heart. This could mean just read them enough so that you can recall what the Bible says. But I think that laying up Scripture in the heart means to memorize some of the key verses in the Bible. Scripture memory takes diligence and patience. For most people I would think that memorizing Scripture would take some planning. It would require a method of systematic review in order to learn the verse well enough to plant it in your long-term or permanent memory. Years ago I placed the verses I wanted to learn by heart on 3 by 5 inch file cards. I wrote the verse on the lined side of the card. I wrote the “address,” the Bible book name, chapter and verse number, on the short end of the plain side of the index card. I worked hard to learn both the words and the reference information or “address” with each verse. After I learned a verse, I reviewed it each day for a week. If I found I had learned it well enough, I placed it in the group of verses to review once a week while I continued learning other new verses. If, when I reviewed a verse in the once-a-week review set, if I could not remember it perfectly, I put that card back into the daily review set of cards. I have placed a whole set selected from the verses I chose to memorize on this site as Daily Bible Nuggets at the beginning of the series. They are from the list of verses I shared with my high school Sunday school class. It is helpful to our spiritual walk to be able to meditate upon and receive encouragement from verses we have learned by heart. Knowing verses by heart makes it easier to share God’s word with others even when we are not near a Bible.

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 186 for Deuteronomy 6:6.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 204 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Deuteronomy 6:6.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:

Deuteronomy 6:6. And these words. +*Dt 17:19. 31:12. +*Jsh 1:8. *2 Ch 17:9. **Ps 19:7. Ac 8:28. which I command thee. Dt 5:10. 11:13. Nu 15:39. Jsh 22:5. Ps 103:18. shall be in thine heart. +*Le 11:3. Dt 11:18. 17:19. 32:46. Nu 15:39. 1 K 8:48. *Jb 22:22. Ps 37:31. 40:8. +*Ps 119:11, 97, 98. Pr 2:10, 11. 3:1-3, 5, 21. 4:4. 7:3. Is 51:7. Je 31:33. Lk 2:51. 8:15. Jn 5:38. 15:7. 2 Cor 3:3. Col 3:16. 2 J 1:2.