THINK TOGETHER
Who do you trust?
READ TOGETHER
Sometimes people think that the Bible is a book about how to be good. Or that it is just a big list of rules that God wants us to obey. But that is not the real purpose of the Bible. God gave us the Bible to teach us one main thing – we can and must trust God with all our heart. That is why one of the most loved and most important proverbs in the Bible is this one:
Proverbs 3:5-6. 5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Learning to trust God is the most important thing you can ever learn as you grow up. But it is also the hardest things to learn. Why? Because sometimes the world around us can be very confusing and even very scary. And many times we just don’t understand why God does what he does or why he allows what he allows.
Right now adults control much of your life. And that is a good thing, because they love you and know what is best for you. Learning to trust the grown-ups that God has put in your life is important because it teaches you how to trust God. One day, when you get older, you will want to control your own life and make your own choices. But hopefully you will have learned the lesson that God wanted you to learn – Trust God with all your heart because you are not in control of your life, he is. And he is good.
But how do we know that we can always trust God? How do we know that he is always good? Because of Jesus. If God would send his Son, Jesus, to earth to die for us, if he would do the hardest thing ever, and at the same time the kindest thing ever, can we trust that God is always going to do what is best for us? YES!
Because of Jesus we are on God’s straight path to heaven.
With Jesus we can trust God to always do what is best for us.
DO SOMETHING TOGETHER
Make Proverbs 3:5-6 a memory verse for your family. Practice saying it together for the next several days.
PRAY TOGETHER
Jesus, thank you for inviting me to go to heaven to be with you forever. Help me trust you every day between now and then. Amen.
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