The Lord also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.” —Exodus 34:27
Do you remember when your teacher would instruct the class to copy a list from the board or a page from a textbook? It seemed like meaningless busywork. But she knew if you wrote out the material for yourself, you were more likely to grasp and remember the concepts.
That’s why God instructed Moses to write out the words of the Law by hand and for the people to “write them on the doorposts of your house and on your city gates” (Deut. 6:9). He even laid down a command for any future king of Israel, telling him to “write a copy of this instruction for himself” so he might “read from it all the days of his life” and “learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes” (Deut. 17:18–19).
Writing out the Scripture can help us remember it. Help us keep it. Help us live it.
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The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings ©2012 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
Take time to write out selected passages of Scripture that particularly speak to you.