SOUNDING OUT:
Hiding The Word In Our Hearts

  Someone asked me recently, “What does it mean when someone says that a person has a lot of heart?” I said, “I don’t know. The next time you hear someone say that, ask him what he means.” People may be quick to judge others as having or not having “heart,” but few people really know how to develop their heart.

  Psalm 119:11 is one of the fundamental verses on developing our heart. It was one of the first verses that I memorized and really lays a good foundation for getting scripture into our hearts.

  We take the best thing there is, God’s Word, and put it in the best place there is, our heart, for the best reason there is, to not sin against Him. If we want to develop our intimacy with God, it is going to require us acknowledging Him and His Word in our daily living. God’s Word is the greatest reality in life, and when it is hidden in our heart it will issue in our life.

  God has provided for us most abundantly and most liberally in Christ Jesus. He has given us holy spirit. He has given us His Word which lays a wonderful path before us. Jesus Christ “blazed the trail” before us, and we have the privilege to continue in the path, to walk in his steps, and do the works of Jesus Christ. In order to do the works of Jesus Christ we must believe the same words of God that Jesus believed. When we hide God’s Word in our minds and hearts, we can have the same success that he did.

  Jesus Christ could do the will of God because he had hid God’s Word in his heart and he lived it day by day. He hid God’s Word in his heart and he delighted in doing God’s will day by day. We have the same privilege and opportunity to take this wonderful Word of God, the greatest reality in life, and hide it in our hearts, which is the greatest place to put it. We do it for the same reason, “to not sin against Him.” Then we can walk with power and might, vitality and joy and be the men and women He has called us to be.