Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar. You get up one the morning, delve into devotions, and walk away ready to face the day, your thoughts focused on the Lord.

 

But then, it happens.

 

Somewhere between the breakfast hour and the dinner table, those glowing aspirations and heavenly goals get shuffled into the back corner – out of sight, out of mind – faded into the background of chores and errands and phone calls and family issues and a million other things. Instead of living with a renewed thought process, you slip back into looking at the muddle. You lose your eternal perspective.  

 

You forget Jesus.

 

My friend and accountability partner, Britt Leigh , and I were discussing this very thing Friday evening as we were going over our days. This same scenario had happened to us one too many times recently, and it was discouraging. After sharing a verse I had read in Hebrews, we were simultaneously struck with an idea.

 

Why not write that on our hands?!

 

Often it's the little reminders that help me keep focus. A scripture post-it on my bulletin board, a song on the radio, an email from a friend. This way we'd always have a reminder on hand (literally) with one twist of the wrist.

 

So we got out our ball-point pens on Saturday morning and scrawled (in my case, not hers ) those simple, powerful words across our hands. And you know what? It helped.

 

You'll find that it's mighty hard to forget Jesus when you have His name written on you.

 

"Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads."

Deuteronomy 11:18