At the conclusion of this year’s Youth Week, a challenge was put out to our young people. The challenge:  read 10 verses a day for the next 100 days. Not the same verses everyday, but 10 different ones. As I saw the young people, including my children stepped up to commit, a thought hit me. Let’s do this together as a family. When I ran this idea passed my husband and our four children, who range in age from eight to eighteen, they thought it was a good one.

During our nightly devotion, we are reading the Word of God, together, as a family.  Every night one of our kids take turns finding the passage of Scripture to read. We have read from a variety of passages, not all from the book of Psalms. J Everyone takes a turn reading a Scripture until we are finished. Most of the time, the ten verses become a whole chapter. After we read, we talk about what those verses mean.

I am reminded of the Scripture in Deuteronomy 6: 6-7: “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

Just last night we read this passage in Joshua, (chosen by our eight year old son, Joshua) “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

At the conclusion of the 100 days, we do not plan on stopping. We know the importance of family praying together and reading the Word of God together.

Will you accept the challenge too?