A Place Of Storage

(Proverbs 2:1-6) My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; 

What do you use to store information that is important to you? Maybe you are able to use your own mind, maybe a computer, maybe a paper notebook. Personally I use my phone to store things that I want to remember. My job requires me to work out of a one ton, white van; so the most practical place for me to store information is in my phone, because it is small and always with me.

The Lord says that he will give wisdom and understanding to those people who store up his commandments with them. The NKJV translates it "within them," and the ESV says "with them." I like using the sense of both words. For me, I hear things, think about things, or study things and need to get them out of my head and onto something I can look at. It helps me to store up things first, then store them up within me. Storing up God's commandments within us is essential. If I left it as just storing up God's commandments, I might as well just carry a paper Bible around with me, because inside contains all of God's commandments, concise, and very nicely stored up. But those commandments need to make their way out of my storage device, and into my head to stay.