Proverbs 7:1-3 “My son, keep my words, and lay-up my commitments with thee. Keep my commitments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.”
Solomon continues to advise us and instruct us exactly how we should treat God’s Word and law. First we see that we should keep these commandments and to properly love and respect the ten commandments. It is so easy to say we are doing well, when we are actually denying any commandment to any small degree, but we are in sin if we think He is not repulsed by any part of disobeying.
Second, apple of your eye is the little image you can see in the beholder’s pupil of the eye when you look into his eyes. Got wants His Word to always be the apple of your eye when you are tempted.
Third, bind His ten commandments to your finger and keep them as faithfully as a marriage ring keeps you to your spouse.
Fourth, write these commitments on the table of your heart’s love –just like friends and family are written there.—consider the hurt you cause them and God when you give in to temptation.
Lord, we love You today and truly want Your Word, law, and commandments to be the apple of our eyes, the wedding ring of our commitment, and the table our heart and mind that help us make choices. Help us, Lord, to realize the little things we do daily to break your solemn ten commandments. Forgive us for these actions, and apply Your Word to our hearts and minds to reduce these actions. For Your service we live. Amen
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