Rabbi Schneider - Write This On Your Heart

Bruchim ha-baim be'Shem Adonai, welcome beloved one in the name of the Lord today for our weekly Seeds of Revelation, a quick devotional. I'm looking today the book of Proverbs 3:3, Hear the word of God, "Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart".

I want to think about those words: Kindness and truth. "Do not let kindness and truth leave you. Wear them around your neck as a necklace, and bind them on the tablet of your heart. I think that's so important because we have to realize we live in a spiritual atmosphere. And the Lord said in the Torah, he said, he puts life and death before us, choose life that we would live.

And so in this spiritual war that we're in, on the one hand, we're facing the winds of darkness from Satan and the powers of darkness. Satan is cruel and he's not kind. He's cruel and he's not full of love. He's full of hate. So we feel him blowing against us, wanting to bring us into agreement with him towards other people. But the Lord says that work to bind loving kindness and truth around our necks and upon our heart.

So every day when we're dealing with life and with people, we can choose either one. We feel both. Satan wants to grab us and snag us so that we bring accusation against other people. That we bring cruelty against other people.

And so when you feel at times thoughts of cruelty or accusation towards others understand what's going on. That is Satan trying to get you to bring trying to bring you into agreement with him. But that's why the law counters out by telling us to by loving kindness and truth around our necks and to bind it upon our hearts. And so, beloved, let's recognize we're in a war. Let's choose loving kindness and truth. Let's receive God and not let anything else in.