Colossians 3:23-24 “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”
Some say that children don’t have a job but this isn’t really true. For them, their household chores are a job and at school, their work is to do the best that they can. They should understand that they are really working for the Lord and it is “the Lord Christ whom [they] serve.”
Deuteronomy 11:18-21 “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.”
I realize this is a very long passage of Scripture but this is the commandment that Paul mentioned in Ephesians 6:1-2 that was the first commandment with a promise…that of a long life. This are so important that a child should strive to listen to their parents when they wake up (when you rise), when they go to bed (when you lie down), when they are at home (sitting in your house), and when they go anywhere (when you are walking by the way). Why should children memorize these verses? It is because they can pass these onto their own children in time.
Conclusion
What about you as an adult? What Bible verses have you committed to memory? I have memorized several that I frequently use when sharing the Bible.
Here are some of mine and it is my hope that you can see why I chose them:
Second Corinthians 5:21 “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
First John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Hebrews 9:27 “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”
John 10:28-29 “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
John 11:25 “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Of course, I cannot put all of those that I have committed to memory because there are so many more but now I ask you to leave a comment with one of yours and tell me why you think it’s important for you or your children to memorize.
REFERENCE: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christiancrier/2014/04/21/7-important-bible-verses-for-kids-to-learn-and-memorize/
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