Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There
is no other commandment greater than these.”
I don't want them to only be able to recite it, but I want it to infiltrate every aspect of their lives. Most of all, I want to teach my kids Who God Is, because I suspect that it is by knowing God and His love and His character that we learn to respond with an appropriate love for (1 John 4:19) and fear of (Prov 1:7) Him.
Second to that, I want to teach my kids that our actions should be motivated by a desire to thank Jesus (for the great extent of His love for us by dying on the cross in our place and rising from the dead so that we may, too, rise and have eternal life) (Jn 14:21).
So we made these. In the center is Love God. The 6 ways (categories) for Loving God are via: Heart, Mind, Soul, Strength, to Love Others (Mk 12:28-31), and To Obey (Jn 14:21). I explained to the kids that when our daily schedule does not reflect these things, I'd be willing to guess we lived that day for ourselves and not for God (for our will and not for God's will).
How can I teach this best other than modeling it for them and leading them to live this out?
So, I've recently decided to try using these as categories for scheduling our homeschool days in order that they might know the "why" behind the things we do. And I've created a notecard box with dividers for these categories (so that each day we can read 1 Bible verse notecard from each category before we begin the corresponding event on our schedule):
LOVE
GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART & SOUL
(WORSHIP via PRAYER, SONG, BIBLE STUDY & PERSONAL PRAYER JOURNALING)
(WORSHIP via PRAYER, SONG, BIBLE STUDY & PERSONAL PRAYER JOURNALING)
Notecard Categories:
Why Pray
Why Read The Bible
LOVE GOD (& THANK HIM) BY OBEYING HIM
(RESPOND TO GOD by writing in Prayer Journals)
Notecard Category
Why Obey Him
LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR STRENGTH /
LOVE GOD BY SERVING OTHERS
(PHYSICAL EXERCISES & PRE/POST-MEAL RESPONSIBILITIES)
Notecard Category:Exercise/Stewardship/Responsibility
LOVE
GOD WITH ALL OF YOUR MIND
(MENTAL EXERCISES)
Notecard Category:Why Learn
LOVE
GOD (& THANK HIM) BY LOVING/SERVING OTHERS (play with siblings/neighbors/friends)
Notecard Category:
Love One Another
The prayer of my heart is that God will use this routine to help me expose my children to a variety of Bible verses about each of these 6 categories and that His Word will take root in their hearts. And I hope God's Spirit will give them understanding that God, alone, is worthy of our affection, time & service and that He (the Life-Giver) is the only One worth living for (not ourselves).
And so...we begin.
In case you are interested, here are the verses on the notecards in each category:
Flashcard Verses
Why Pray:
2 Chron
7:14-15
Ps
34:1-4
55:16-17
145:18-21
Pr
15:29
Isa
59:1-2
Jer
29:12-14a
33:2-3
Mt
5:44-476:9-13
6:5-8
7:7-11
18:19-20
26:36-46
26:36-39,42,44b
Lk
18:1-8
Jn
9:31
Rom
8:26-28
Eph
3:20-21
6:10-20
Php
4:4-7
Col
4:2
1 Thess
5:16-21
1 Tim
2:1-8
Jas
1:5-8
4:1-12
5:13-18
1 Jn
3:22; 5:14-15
Why Read the Bible:
Dt
8:3
Ps
1:1-6
34:8
63:1,5
119:34-38
Pr
1
2
3:5-8
8:10-12
8:32-36
15:20-22
15:31-33
17:24
17:27
18:15
19:26-27
28:26
Jer
15:16
Mt
4:4
Jn
4:13-14
6:35
8:31-36
Rom
12:2
Eph
4:11-16
6:10-20
Col
3:9b-10
3:16
2 Tim
3:16-17
Heb
4:12-13
Jas
1:19-22
1 Pet
3:13-17
Why Obey:
Pr
3:1-12
3:11-12
5:23
6:20-23
8:32-36
12:1
13:18
13:24
15:10
15:12
15:24
15:32
17:1
17:10
23:14
25:28
28:26
Eccl
5:6
12:13
Isa
59:2
Mt
5:6
5:21-26
6:1-4
6:5-8,16-18
7:24-27
Jn
8:31-36
14:15-24
15:4-11
15:9-14
Rom
2:4
12:1
Gal
5:22-26
Eph
2:1
2:8-10
4:17-24
6:1-3
6:5-7
Php
1:27-28
2:8
2:14-16
4:8-9
Col
3:17,20,23-25
3:20
3:22
1 Thess
4:3-4, 6-8
5:12-13b
5:14-24
2 Tim
1:7
Tit
1:16
3:8-11
Heb
12:3-6
12:10-11
12:3-15
Jas
4:17
2 Pet
1:5-9
1:13-16
Jude
1:24-25
Rev
3:19
Exercise/Stewardship/Responsibility:
Definition of a
Steward
Pr
6:9-11
15:19
21:25
25:28
Eccl
3:1-8
Mk
12:28-31
Lk 16:10-12
Rom
12:4-6
1 Cor
6:19-20
6:24-27
12:4-27
Gal
5:22-26
6:5
Eph
2:10
4:28
Php
2:14-16
1 Thess
4:3-4,6-8
2 Thess
3:10,12
2 Tim
1:7
2 Thess
3:7-8
Heb
12:11-13
2 Pet
1:5-9
Why Learn
Pr
1:2-7
1:29-31
10:13-14
18:15
19:27
20:15
24:5
Eccl
7:12
12:11-14
1 Cor
6:19-20
Eph
2:10
1 Pet
4:10
Love One Another
Pr
15:4
15:1-2
17:9
17:13-14
17:17
19:17
Eccl
5:6
Mt
5:9
5:21-22
5:38-42
5:43-47
6:14-15
7:1-5
18:6
18:15-17
18:33-35
18:35
25:31-46
Mk
12:29-31
Lk
6:37
17:3-4
Jn
13:34-35
15:12-14
Rom
5:8
12:9-16
12:14,16b-21
12:16b
12:18
1 Cor
13
Gal
5:22-26
5:22-26
6:1-2
Eph
4:24-32
5:21
Php
2:3-8
Col
3:15
1 Thess
4:3-8
5:13b-24
2 Thess
3:13-15
1 Tim
2:8
2 Tim
2:22-26
Heb
12-14-15
Jas
1:19
3:13-18
4
5:16
5:19-20
2 Pet
1:5-9
1 Jn
4:21
Pray For The Kids
Ps
119:34-38
139:1-4,23-24
Php
1:9-11
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