Need to Know: God Gives Me Rules to Follow

Today we put our construction crew rule-following skills to the test as we learned about the time God gave Moses & his people the Ten Commandments in Exodus 19:1 - 20:17 and 34:32. We should follow these same rules just as Moses and the Israelites did. Today we focused on these seven commandments:

1. Worship only God.
2. Worship God and rest on the Sabbath.
3. Love and obey your parents.
4. Do not hurt other people.
5. Do not steal.
6. Tell the truth.
7. Be happy with what you have.

We should always follow the rules God gives us in the Bible.  When we follow God’s rules, things will be better for us and for everybody else!

This week, bake cookies with your child using a recipe or instructions. As you are enjoying your finished cookies, discuss all the ingredients and steps you had to follow to make your yummy creations. Talk about what would have happened if you had left out an ingredient or skipped a step in the instructions. Discuss how God gives us rules to follow just like you had to follow the recipe and instructions for baking your cookies. Pray with your child each morning, asking God to help you both follow His rules.

Don’t forget to practice our Remember Verse. Here is the verse and the motions we do along with it:

Need to Know: Keep God Your Priority

Many things are important to us, but today we talked about how God should be the most important thing in our life—our priority. In the Bible story of the Rich Man (Luke12:13-31) we saw how our things can become more important to us than God. If our things are most important, God cannot be most important. In this story Jesus also tells us why we should not worry about having more and more things. Just like the birds do not have to store up food and the flowers do not have to fuss with their appearance, we do not have to worry about what we do not have because we are more important to God than birds and flowers. He will take care of us and do His best for us! These stories Jesus told in Luke remind us to Keep God Your Priority!

Here are some ways we said we can all keep God our priority by having a “God First” attitude:

Try to implement these things into you and your child’s everyday routine. Thinking about God is not something we should only do at church. One day our toys and clothes will get old, our friends might move away and we may decide to play a different sport. God is the only thing that will last forever, so He should be our priority, the thing we think about and care about most.

Another way you can keep God your priority is by memorizing His word. Practice memorizing our Memory Verse for this series!