What's in your pockets?

How many times have you read something and not really get it until a moment in your life when you really needed it. Does that make sense?  

I read a scripture from Proverbs that I have read many times, Proverbs 3:3.  We have all heard Pastors and speakers tell us to "get the word deep in your heart" or "write them on the tablet of your heart".  I guess I always knew what that meant, but never really thought too much about it until I needed it.  In the Encarta world Dictionary one meaning of Write is  "to ordain or prophesy what will happen in the future". 

In the verse Proverbs 3:3 NKJV we are told to let not mercy & truth forsake you bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 

 In the NLT the verses reads; Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder; Write them deep within your heart. 

Mercy & Truth.  Loyalty & Kindness.  We can prophesy that they will happen in the future.  We can ordain that they will happen in the future. 

For me keeping it in "my heart" is like keeping something in your pocket.  It is there when you need it.  So by keeping Kindness, let's say, in my pocket, I can ordain or command myself to show kindness;  at a time I really need it.  Like when the guy cuts me off in traffic...

I can prophesy Mercy, it's in my pocket, I have it when I need it; I will reveal (show) God’s mercy & compassion to others; I am predicting it, because I am prepared. 

Life is full of the unexpected, many times you are going to have to check what is in your pockets.  Will they be full of lint or the good stuff.......