What’s Your Password?
Many of us have trouble remembering passwords for the various sites we are connected with, so we click the "remember passwords" button. What a great invention that is, huh? Our computers and phones take over the heavy thinking, and we sign in easily with the touch of a finger or the inspection of a face. If you are like me, you also probably have trouble remembering appointments, dates, and phone numbers. I can remember the phone numbers of my friends in elementary school, but I don't know the numbers of people I call or text now on a regular basis. Why? I don't have to. Technology has made things so much easier on us, but it can also make our minds weak when we don’t exercise them.
Do you have problems memorizing scripture? I surely do. I can remember the verses I memorized as a child in Sunday School, but I have difficulty remembering new ones now. Of course, we can go to a Bible app or even Google to look scriptures up, but we need them in our minds. God told the Hebrews to talk about God's words and to write them on their doorposts and on their hands, where they could see them constantly.
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Solomon emphasized the importance of knowing God's Word in Proverbs.
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:1-3
Indeed, it is good to have the Word of God in our minds. There are times when we need to draw on the Word to encourage people or even to encourage ourselves.
One of the things I have done to help me (and to hold me accountable) is to weave scripture into my passwords.
Many sites suggest you use uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and even a symbol. Why not use this as a reminder? Every time you log into your Facebook account, you could type in 2Chron7:14! And before you hit enter, recite, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and will heal their land."
Or, when you are signing into your email account, you could type Mark8&36 and recite, ”For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul?”
Come on. You can do this! Turn off that "remember password" button and practice some scripture. And, if you have any suggestions on everyday ways we can get more scripture into our lives, please drop it in the comments below.
