Is studying Scripture to take place only on Sunday mornings?
Kevin Swanson explains in this video that the Word of God is to saturate each home on a continual basis. Each day in a Christian home should be full of singing hymns and praises, reading, and studying Scripture.
We are to meditate on God's Word day and night. It isn't just a 20-minute Bible time. It's something that is to occur throughout the day. There needs to be a continuous integration of God's Word in every part of our life. Our children should not grow up thinking that studying God's Word only takes place on Sunday mornings.
Psalms 1:2 (NKJV) - "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night."
The Word of God needs to saturate the home. Our homes should be just ringing with singing and a sharing of the Word of Christ through hymns and psalms and spiritual songs. That's the command in Ephesians 5, and that needs to be the atmosphere of every Christian home. The Christian life is a constant feeding of ourselves, our souls with the Word of God. We need to be like those trees planted by the rivers of water, bringing forth our fruit and our season because we're meditating on the Word of God day and night.
Psalm 1 is the picture of the godly example. So it's not just a 20-minute Bible time in the morning. It's also a feeding on the Word of God as we sit in the house, as we walk by the way, as we rise up, and as we lie down. So it can be prepared, it can be extemporaneous, it can be as we drive the car, as we point out this or that that God has made, and we draw that into scripture. There needs to be a continuous integration of the Word of God into every aspect of our children's lives.
And we don't want our children to get the impression that the Word of God is there for a Sunday morning Sunday School and then the rest of the week there is a godless, wordless existence. We want God to be there as they sit in their history class, as they sit in their science class. They need to see Christ.