DIY Children's Devotionals

Play a quick game of follow the leader with your children. 
After the game, asked them what determined what they did during the game?  Affirm all answers, but ultimately you are looking for them to say they followed leader or they did what the leader did.

One thing we can learn from that game is that whether in a game, school or life, who you follow will always determine what you do.  If you play on a team, you are following the coach, and the preferences of the coach will determine the way the team plays and what they do.  In school, if your teacher teaches you a certain way to do long division, then that is the way you will do it, and you will keep doing it that way until you get a new teacher and you begin to follow their way of doing it.  Who you follow determines what you do.

It is important to make sure we are following the right people.  First, and foremost, we should be following Jesus and when we follow Jesus, we are going to become more like him and do what he did.  In the Bible, a disciple was just somebody that was following a master and trying to become more like them.  Then, if we follow Jesus first, we also need to surround ourselves with people that also follow Jesus, so in learning from them, we can grow our relationship with Jesus.

We need to be very careful not to follow people who do not believe in Jesus or do things that Jesus taught us not to do, because in following them, it can actually lead us away from Jesus.  It can lead us to become less like Jesus and more like the person we are following and that is not good.

Throughout our lives, we are going to be playing follow the leader, so it is important that we make sure we pick a good leader that will lead us in the right direction.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Home Bible Study - Jesus - Tempted in the Wilderness - Day 1

Image
Matthew 4:1-11 -   Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted  by the devil.   2  After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.   3  The tempter came to him and said, “ If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. ” 4  Jesus answered,  “ It is written: ‘ Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. ’ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple.   6  “ If you are the Son of God, ”  he said, “ throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘ He will command his angels concerning you,      and they will lift you up in their hands,      so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. ’ ” 7  Jesus answered him,  “ It is also written: ‘ Do not put the Lord your God to the test. ’ 8  Again, the...
Read more

DIY Children's Devotions - Cereal Milk

Image
Get a bowl of cereal (kids cereals work best) and then after a minute tell your children that you love cereal milk.  If they ask what Cereal milk is tell them that it is when your cereal sits in the milk and all the sugar and food coloring from the cereal changes the milk into a sweet treat.   Believe it or not, we are a lot like the milk.  All the things we watch, do and hang out with eventually starts to rub off on us if we let it stay in our lives long enough.  If you hang out with people trying to do the right thing, reading the Bible, praying and that go to Church, then they are going to have a positive influence in your life and God will permeate everything you do.  If we hang out with people making poor decisions, listen to music that tells us to do the wrong thing, watch rated R movies and watch shows were people do not live according to God's will and word, then, like the Coco Pebbles, that is going to gradually seep into our lives and begin...
Read more