But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.Interesting that this would be in the first chapter I read, after I've been on a long hiatus from this study.
I use a different Bible for this study than I do for other things like church. This Bible normally sits on my top bunk, no more than 6 feet from where I am while typing this out. I spend much of my time at home on this computer, sitting right where I am now. 6 feet away, the book I promised myself I would read daily. Yet it's been almost a month and a half since I last picked it up for that purpose.
I know that's not the purpose of this verse. It means that the word is with us, in us, where we always know it. Yet the principle is the same. I always knew where that Bible was sitting, every day, yet I decided not to pick it up and use it. Some days that was a conscious decision, other days I didn't even think about it. Yet all that time, the word was near, with parts of it in my mouth and on my heart, but I chose not to avail myself of it far more often that I should have. Now I have to reverse that decision, and start making it an unconscious decision to use it instead.
I just with knowing that goal and getting there weren't as widely separated as they are.
