Here is today’s Bible reading:  Deuteronomy 11:1-12:32; Luke 8:22-39; Psalm 70:1-5; Proverbs 12:4.

Deut. 11:18-21 (NIV)
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. [19] Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. [20] Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, [21] so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

Do you get the idea that God’s Word was to be central to the lives of God’s people?  They were to wear it, teach it, talk about it–morning, noon, and night.  It was even to be visible on their doorframes and gates so that every time that walked in and out they were confronted by it.  God knew that if His people were not intentional about their attention to the Word, they would all too easily be distracted by other things.  We know that all too well.  May we return God’s Word to its rightful place of priority in our lives.