Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 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. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (NIV)
Well ... uh, what should be most important to our family's life? First off, it seems pretty clear that God requires worship. Worship is not merely Sunday morning sing a few songs, yawn through the sermon, and shake a few hands. Worship is how we focus and spend our lives each day (including Sunday church). It is what is on our minds and what's coming from our mouths as we "sit at home", "walk along the road", "lie down", and "get up." God is not satisfied to be in the hobby category.
Secondly, God knows we need reminders. So put reminders of Him all over the place. We have put verses around the house, to help us focus on whatever the verse addresses. Every time we see it, it sinks in a little deeper. So how can we help ourselves focus on Christ this week? Keep a Bible or Bible promises on the dining room table. Set the alarm for five minutes earlier, to remind us to pray. A friend of mine always prays for a certain missionary whenever he sees a certain kind of vehicle. How about changing the "slug bug" game into a verse-bug game. That means every time you see a Volkswagon Beetle you say a verse.
We probably could do less theologizing about God, and begin to more God in the everyday life. Leave a comment on how that works for your family.
Bryan
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