DIY Children's Devotion - TURN THAT DOWN

DIY Family Devotion

Tell your children that you need to have a very serious family meeting.  Invite them into the living room and then ask them how they are doing with all that is going on around them.  Before they answer, so “Hold on a second’ and turn up the TV real loud, turn on music (or ask your Alexa to play music) and then start vacuuming with one hand and be on the phone in your other hand and then start talking to them and say, “Okay, go.”  After a moment, stop and say, “Do you find it hard to have a conversation like this?”

Believe it or not, God feels the same way.  We often want God to speak over the noise and craziness in our lives, but no matter how loud he gets, it will still be hard to understand him.  So, God has actually called us to find times throughout our day to “pause” the noise, find some quiet and listen to and for him.

Take out your Bible and open to Psalm 46:10. Then, read the verse to them – “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations and I will be exalted in the earth.”  Ask your children what stands out to them in that verse.  Show them that the command is for us.  God tells us to be still, to find quiet, to pause our lives, etc. so that we can hear him.  The command is not for God to get louder, but for us to adjust to him, so we can hear and know him as our God.

We need to make sure that we find time each day to turn down the air pods, pause the Xbox, step away from Netflix and take a moment to hear what God has to say. 

Let’s pray…

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