Passage
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Deuteronomy 6:6 (WEB)
Nearby Context
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:6 These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Deuteronomy 6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Deuteronomy 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "words", "command", "today", "shall", and "heart". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "words" and "command", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 5's "You shall love Yahweh your God with..." into verse 7's "and you shall teach them diligently to...", so "words" and "command" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "words" and "command" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.