Beware the Low Road

Proverbs 6:21 (KJV) Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

One of the disagreements between different people is how literal to take the Bible.  Evidently there are some in the dispensational camp who claimed that they take everything literally. Others back off a bit and are selective, which puts us immediately into the problem of who gets to do the selecting.

Is this to be taken literally or figuratively?  My understanding is that the Jews have taken it literally and they actually wear little bits of scripture bound to parts of their body.  They put scripture by the door nailed in little capsules.  I’m sure that the ones who originally did this would stop and read those scriptures every once in a while and call them to mind but what tends to happen when we get this literal is we are satisfied with following the law and we ignore the spirit behind it.

When you take this figuratively from the start, you may still find something around your neck, but you understand that the point is you need to be meditating on these things and focusing on these things.

Often times following the letter of the law is the low road instead of the high road.  It means that as long as you dot your I’s and cross your T’s then you can spell everything else however you want.

So?  Let your spirit be that which seeks to be most obedient to the holy God.  We are not under the law, true.  But God looks at our heart and sees if our desire is to bring Him joy and to be obedient.