Proverbs 6:20-22   ²⁰ My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.  ²¹ Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.  ²² When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Have you ever tied a string around your finger to remember something? For some of us it still doesn’t help. We can’t remember what the string was for. We know it must have been important, but the actual thing to be remembered is forgotten. Or we put an important item in a special place so it will be safe only to forget the place we put it. Well, it is safe at least.

The scriptures will only help us if we remember them. Find those scriptures that speak to you and put them everywhere. Repeat them often to memorize them. Put them on the mirror in the bathroom, on the refrigerator, on the computer monitor, wherever you spend your time. Look at them and say them aloud. If we repeat them over and over again, we will be more likely to remember them when we need them to guide us through a difficult situation.

Lord, put your words in our minds and hearts. Help us remember them when we are in times of trouble. Amen.