Intentional Decorating
by
Stephanie Heady
Deuteronomy
6:7-9 (NLT) “Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when
you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and
when you are getting up. Tie them to
your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the
doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Deuteronomy
11:20-21 (NLT) “Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, so
that as long as the sky remains above the earth, you and your children may
flourish in the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors.”
I don’t know
about you, but memorizing scripture has never been easy for me nor does it come
naturally. I remember in the house where
I grew up, my mom had a cross-stitch on the wall that said, “This House Serves
the Lord” and I looked at it every day because of where it was hanging. One day, I was thinking about that
cross-stitch and how intentional we should be with what decorations we put in
our homes and where we put them. I have
tried to put scripture all over our house so that I can learn it. The more we learn God’s word, the more we can
apply it to our lives and lean on His word for hope. The best teaching moments occur as life
happens as we walk around the house, as we cook dinner, as we wash dishes and as
we put kids to bed.
Philippians 4:8 (NIV) “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever
is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is
lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think
about such things.” sits by the sink and I read it as I wash dishes. One day I received a phone call from a good
friend who was struggling with seeing the truth of a situation and I quoted
that scripture and she started crying, she told me how much she had needed to
hear that scripture. I do not say this
to toot my own horn. I say it because if
I would not have had this verse memorized, I probably could not have been used
by God at that moment to turn her to His word.
I shared with her that I knew God had just spoken through me, because I
typically am not good at remembering scripture, but since it was there, God
could use it to speak through me. We are
just a vessel and I want to be a usable vessel filled with His word.
Challenge: Print scriptures and
place them around your home. You can
frame them, write them on mirrors, write them on post it notes, etc…
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