Greetings Precious Family and Happy 2025:

May God’s PEACE be with you always.

Family, recently, I have been studying the purpose and meaning of the Mezuzah after having a discussion with a dear friend. Once I began my research, my curiosity was peaked.

The Mezuzah is contained inside the cylindrical or rectangular box that is placed on the doorpost of a home and doorposts of the rooms in the home as well. The Mezuzah is the blessing, reminder, and prayer of the most important command from God, which in its simplest form is to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength and to place God’s Word in your heart.

The Mezuzah Prayer

“Blessed are You, Adonai, our God, Sovereign of the universe, who hallows us with mitzvot and commands us to affix the mezuzah“. 

The scripture passage goes on to say that not only should believers place God’s Word in their heart and home, but to also teach their children about the goodness and blessings of God. It also goes on to say that a continual reminder should be wrapped around your wrists and placed on your forehead.

In essence, the Mezuzah is a prayerful reminder that God should never leave you. 🙏  As Christians and believers in the Holy Spirit, we have a Helper that continually leads, guides, and reminds us about our covenant with God. Even though we do not adorn our bodies with visual reminders, we are taught to study the Word to show ourselves approved.

The Mezuzah contains the scripture passages from the fifth book of the Torah, which is Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21.

Holy Scriptures

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

New Catholic Bible

The Law of Love.^[a] 4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord, our God, is Lord alone. ⁵ You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. ⁶ You shall keep these things that I command you today in your heart. ⁷ Teach them to your children. You shall talk of them when you are sitting in your home, and when you are walking along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. ^8 [b]Bind them as a reminder upon your hand, and wear them as a pendant between your eyes ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and your gates.

Deuteronomy 11:13-21

13 [a]If you carefully observe the commandments that I give you today, to love the Lord, your God, and to serve him with all your heart and soul, 14 then he will provide the rain upon the land in its proper season, the fall rains and the spring rains, so that you can harvest your grain, your wine, and your oil. 15 I will provide grass in your field for your cattle, so that you may eat until you are full.

16 Only be careful not to let yourself be enticed, turning away and serving other gods, worshiping them. 17 Then the Lord’s anger would lash out against you. He would shut up the heavens so that there would be no rain, no produce from the land. Beware lest you soon perish in the good land that the Lord is giving you.

18 Rewards of Faithfulness. Fix these words in your heart and your soul, bind them as a reminder upon your hand, and wear them as a pendant between your eyes. 19 You are to teach them to your children. You shall talk of them when you are sitting in your home, and when you are walking along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. 20 You are to write them on the doorframes of your houses and your gates 21 so that your days and the days of your children will be multiplied in the land that the Lord promised to give them, lasting as long as the heavens cover the earth.

Worship Song

Family, I am a true believer that God can use so many ways to reach us about how to live a life that glorifies Him. If you need to bind a scripture to your arm, start your day with a prayer, continue praying throughout the day, sing a worship song from your heart, light a candle and have meditation, or any other outward gesture that helps you to grow closer…DO IT!!!!

Do whatever it takes to stay in the presence of God continually. Do whatever it takes to treat people with God’s love. Do whatever it takes to keep the Word of God in your heart.

Do whatever it takes!!!

Your Sister,

Rev. Marcia Davis

Covington, GA