You shall write them on the doorposts of your house...

Earlier this year, with a Small Group, I began reading the book, "A Mom After God's Own Heart" by Elizabeth George. It is a wonderful book dealing with being a mom and most importantly leading your children to Jesus by your actions, words and lifestyle. There are so many wonderful aspects of the book but one set of scriptures she kept referring to and challenging us with was Deuteronomy 6:4-9:

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all  your strength. "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in  your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

We are commanded in this scripture to teach our children God's Word constantly and not only teach them and talk about it but display it on the actual house! I fail every day at this and I have a long way to go but after being challenged by this in the book and most importantly in God's Word, I decided that scripture would be in our house. Not just by having a Bible in the corner but having scripture literally on the walls. I haven't gotten all the scripture up yet that I want to but the first place I did was our little ones room. In addition to adding cool new stripes, I knew I needed to not forsake the most important part: a cool piece of Scripture art. Now our little guy has cool stripes and most importantly Deuteronomy 6:5 on his wall. And every night before bed we read this scripture, and others before we say good night.