Your House Speaks Volumes About Your Relationship With Jesus! Or Does It?

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Deuteronomy 5; Deuteronomy 6; Psalm 43; Mark 14

Your House Speaks Volumes About Your Relationship With Jesus!
Or Does It? 

Scripture

Deuteronomy 6

⁴ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. ⁵ Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. 

Observation

When someone walks into your home do they immediately realize that you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ? I love this passage in Deuteronomy 6 where Moses is telling the people one last time how to live out God’s commandments. 

Here is my rough paraphrase of Deuteronomy 6:4-9

 “The word of God should be in your hearts. You are to teach them to your children. They are to be the subject of conversation when you are sitting around the house and when you go on trips. You should talk about God’s word when you lie down for bed and when you get up for breakfast. It is a good idea to wear scripture bracelets or other things like that on your hands or around your neck that remind you of the word of God. Your house should have scriptures on the walls and stuck on the refrigerator. Sometimes even on the mirrors in your home if you are trying to memorize scripture.” 

When people come into your house are they immediately aware that you serve the Lord Jesus Christ by what they see. Can someone walk through your entire house and not see one scripture or symbol that indicates that you have a relationship with someone very special – Jesus!

I love the way Kathy has our house decorated with things that reflect our relationship with Christ. You would have to be blind to walk into our house and not realize that we serve a Mighty God. How about your house? Is it a witness?  

Application

I will talk about the things of the Lord with my children and my grandchildren when they are in our home and I will continue to do everything I can to help them develop and improve their relationship with Jesus.  

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I know that Your word should be a daily part of our lives. Our children and our grandchildren should expect to hear us quote Your word when we are talking with them. They shouldn’t be shocked when we share Your word with them. Help it to be a natural part of our lives. 

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