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I. THE WORDS OF GOD ARE THE TREASURE OF THE HEART. Wherever they be, if they are not in the heart they fail to answer the Divine intention. They are made for the heart, and the heart is made for them. Let them be there first, and it will follow that they will be everywhere else where they are needed.

II. THE WORDS OF GOD ARE THE THEME OF THE CONVERSATION. There is a picturesque completeness in the enumeration of the occasions upon which these words are to be talked of — at home, abroad, evening, and morning. Though His words in origin, they are our words in use.

III. THE WORDS OF GOD ARE THE ORNAMENT OF THE LIFE. The Jews adorned their persons with texts of Scripture, written upon papyrus or parchment, and enclosed within little boxes or cylinders, which were worn upon the hand or the brow: an emblem of their intimacy and familiarity with Divine truth, and to us a reminder that our life, our politics, our literature, our art, should all be governed by the principles and motives presented in revelation.

IV. THE WORDS OF GOD ARE THE LAW OF THE HOME AND HOUSEHOLD. Scraps of Scripture were suspended by the threshold of the house surely to intimate that in a sense every Israelite's home was a temple sacred unto the Lord. Our households are protected, and guided, and hallowed, when the Divine Word is their supreme authority.

V. THE WORDS OF GOD ARE THE INHERITANCE OF OUR CHILDREN. Whatever parents fail to do for their offspring, to bequeath to them, let them, above all things, hand down to them the precious and sacred deposit of truth, teaching diligently unto their children what they themselves have received from those who have gone before them.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

WEB: These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;