Love God With All Your Heart
And you must love the LORD your God
with all your heart …
Repeat them again and again to your children.
Talk about them when you are at home..
and when you are away on a journey,
when you are lying down
and when you are getting up again.
Write them on the doorposts of your house…
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 NLT
How do you teach a 2 yr old how to love God with all their heart?
Love is patient and kind…
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable…
Love never gives up…
and endures through every circumstance.
Love will last forever…
It's like this: When I was a child,
I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does.
But when I grew up,
I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-11 NLT
When I was a little girl my mother would hold my hand as we walked and point out to me all of the things that God had made and tell me,
And you must love the LORD your God
with all your heart …
Repeat them again and again to your children.
Talk about them when you are at home..
and when you are away on a journey,
when you are lying down
and when you are getting up again.
Write them on the doorposts of your house…
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 NLT
How do you teach a 2 yr old how to love God with all their heart?
Love is patient and kind…
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable…
Love never gives up…
and endures through every circumstance.
Love will last forever…
It's like this: When I was a child,
I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does.
But when I grew up,
I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-11 NLT
When I was a little girl my mother would hold my hand as we walked and point out to me all of the things that God had made and tell me,
“God loves us so much, look at all of the things He made for us.”
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 NIV
Everything my mother did with me, she brought back to how much God loved us, and what all He made for us and did for us, and how we didn’t want to disappoint Him.
So you can do the same with your little one. Take his little hands in yours and pray to God, thanking Him for working in your lives. Then you can tell your little one, “Let’s wait and see what God wants us to do.” Then, when you know, you can say, “Let’s do what God told us to do.” You can read a verse from the Bible and talk about how God loved us so much He wrote us a letter to tell us more about Himself and how He wants us to live. Don’t be surprised if your little one hears from God, or if God speaks to you through your child.
You teach them to love God
the same way you teach them everything else…modeling.
You can practice being patient and kind in front of your child. You can plan ahead to not be irritable. You can decide to not give up when you think you can’t wash another dirty dish, or wipe another dirty bottom, or comfort a crying child another minute during a long sleepless night.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith
develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work
so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom,
he should ask God,
who gives generously to all without finding fault,
and it will be given to him.
James 1:2-6 NIV
Ask God to show you how to do it. He will speak to you the exact words and actions that you need in order to teach your child. You don’t have to take a lot of fancy classes about learning styles, nor do you have to spend your nights reading reams of child rearing books. (I’m not saying there’s no value in any or all of that.) What I’m saying is that walking out what God has told you to do is not too difficult or hard.
"This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand or perform." Deut 30:11-12 NLT
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt 11:28-30 NIV
Isn’t that great? God wants to tell you exactly what to do and His way is easy. Well, it’s easier than my way. When I do it myself, I always end up complicating things. And His message to me is continually, “Come to Me with your questions. Ask Me and I will answer you and tell you great and mighty things that you do not know.” (Is 55:2 Jer 33:3)
Like how to teach a two year old to love God. ;)
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 NIV
Everything my mother did with me, she brought back to how much God loved us, and what all He made for us and did for us, and how we didn’t want to disappoint Him.
So you can do the same with your little one. Take his little hands in yours and pray to God, thanking Him for working in your lives. Then you can tell your little one, “Let’s wait and see what God wants us to do.” Then, when you know, you can say, “Let’s do what God told us to do.” You can read a verse from the Bible and talk about how God loved us so much He wrote us a letter to tell us more about Himself and how He wants us to live. Don’t be surprised if your little one hears from God, or if God speaks to you through your child.
You teach them to love God
the same way you teach them everything else…modeling.
You can practice being patient and kind in front of your child. You can plan ahead to not be irritable. You can decide to not give up when you think you can’t wash another dirty dish, or wipe another dirty bottom, or comfort a crying child another minute during a long sleepless night.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers,
whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith
develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its work
so that you may be mature and complete,
not lacking anything.
If any of you lacks wisdom,
he should ask God,
who gives generously to all without finding fault,
and it will be given to him.
James 1:2-6 NIV
Ask God to show you how to do it. He will speak to you the exact words and actions that you need in order to teach your child. You don’t have to take a lot of fancy classes about learning styles, nor do you have to spend your nights reading reams of child rearing books. (I’m not saying there’s no value in any or all of that.) What I’m saying is that walking out what God has told you to do is not too difficult or hard.
"This command I am giving you today is not too difficult for you to understand or perform." Deut 30:11-12 NLT
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt 11:28-30 NIV
Isn’t that great? God wants to tell you exactly what to do and His way is easy. Well, it’s easier than my way. When I do it myself, I always end up complicating things. And His message to me is continually, “Come to Me with your questions. Ask Me and I will answer you and tell you great and mighty things that you do not know.” (Is 55:2 Jer 33:3)
Like how to teach a two year old to love God. ;)
1 comment:
Thanks for the godly wisdom and encouragement. This is one i will print and put on my refrigerator. I think there is a good balance of not expecting too much or too lttle from a two year old in this. Sometimes we think that they are too young to understand. While they may not understand completely, they will understand what the Father would expect them to understand at this age.
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