God’s Word in Power and on Display
Is it important to display the Word of God in our homes and in public places? That's a great question. What is the answer?
Let’s look at the Word of God. What does Scripture say, if anything, about this?
Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates (Deuteronomy 6:4–9).
“You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
So yes, we should display Scripture in our homes and other places.
Let’s look closer at this passage:
These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead (Deuteronomy 6:6-8).
According to this passage in Deuteronomy, we are to decorate with the Word of God. Yet the Bible also tells us that we are to fill our lives — our hearts and minds — with these Words.
God speaks through His Word all the time, wherever it is found. It can point people to Christ and influence them for good, no matter where they may find it. Generously using the Word of God in your daily life is a wise and fruitful way to live.
For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children’ (Acts 17:28).
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life (John 6:63).
In your own home, all who live or visit will see and observe whatever adorns the walls and interior. Whether it be pictures, posters, or items you have displayed on shelves or in cabinets, those who enter your home will see them.
We are extremely wise to fill our lives with Scripture, our hearts and minds with the Word of God, and our surroundings with the written Word, including clothing, T-shirts, jewelry, pictures, plaques, and posters at home and work. There is no place where having these Words on display is inappropriate.
Some may say, “Well, if I do that, people will think I’m a radical.” And you are probably correct.
A faithful disciple of Christ will be a radical. And why not? We are all radicals about something. It is worth being radical for Christ and His kingdom.
Some people are feel this way about sports. They may spend much time, energy, and money traveling to and attending football, basketball, or baseball games. They may skip opportunities to do many other things because watching or attending sports events is important to them. They buy jerseys and other clothing items to decorate their homes, cars, and trucks with these sports “treasures.”
Many people do this, and the world thinks nothing is out of the ordinary.
Yet, there is no greater cause than for us who know Christ to share Him and God’s Word. Let’s be radical for Him and His kingdom.
I encourage every believer to get a copy of the Ten Commandments and display them prominently in their homes, at work, and wherever else the Lord impresses them.
Also, I would like to encourage you to consider participating in a unique project using Ten Commandment yard signs. This project is placing over one million yard signs in yards across the United States.
If you want to get one of these yard signs, please visit tenlaws.us.
You can get a sign through the website above and boldly place it in front of your home. What a great witnessing tool it is!
My family and I placed one in our front yard, and within days, our neighbor decided that she wanted one in her yard as well. I hope that everyone on our street will get one!
The Word of God is supposed to be at work in our daily lives. It should flow through and fill our thinking. It’s not a burden but a blessing and a privilege to have the Word of God prominently displayed for all to see.
So, one final “radical” idea is to read and meditate on God’s precious Word daily. A goal of reading no less than three chapters a day encourages God’s Spirit to continually burn brightly and passionately within you (1 Corinthians 3:16). This is a great way to “decorate and fill the walls and halls” of your mind and heart with the wonderful and powerful Word of God.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Romans 1:16).
