“Teach Me Jesus” is just that, teaching Jesus to our children. But who is the Jesus we teach our children about? This season, as we celebrate the arrival of our Savior, I want to point out to my children a key characteristic of our Lord-His humility. His very birth is a story of humility.
When I read the Christmas story from the The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name
Yet, my children don’t quite understand what it means to be born in a stable. I’ve found pictures online of babies of royalty and where they were born. I’ve found pictures of castles where royalty live. I’ve also printed out pictures of a cattle trough. Comparing and contrasting, I show them the place where one would expect royalty to be born and reside and what it would have looked like where Jesus was born. I point out to them how different Jesus’ arrival was from what everyone expected.
God doesn’t do things the way we might expect. He uses poor, uneducated and simple people to carry out his plan. He lowers himself and takes on flesh so that we can better understand who he is. He does the worst of all servant’s jobs as he washed the disciples feet. All of these acts of humility point to the greatest act-his sacrificial death on the cross.
The Christmas story and the story of redemption itself is one of humility. I want my children to see the humble details of the story. I want them to see Jesus as more than a cute baby bundled in cloth.
I want them to see him as God incarnate-the Savior of the World.
What “teach me Jesus” moments have you had this Advent season?
This is the first year in my life that I am opening The Bible and reading the words. I wasn’t raised to read it. So as I discover, I share with my girls. This advent, the story of Elizabeth and Mary has been prominent for us. We watched “The Nativity Story” and I enjoyed how the movie portrayed the connection between the two women. Once again, God uses man in the lowest and simplest of places - John - to lead people towards Him. I try to teach my girls that God uses the ordinary for the extraordinary.
I think we think the same way. (I got your email about using My Father’s World). I also just bought that same BIble two days ago. We started yesterday having a Bible study-devotional prayer time. I thought this Bible seemed perfect for it. I love everything I have read so far and I am looking forward to what my kids and I will learn through this time together.
As far as “teach me Jesus” moments, yesterday we had a blast acting out the actual Christmas story. I dressed them up and we went through from the angel visiting Mary in Nazareth all through the birth of Christ. We had so much fun and the kids really went with it. I couldn’t believe how much they knew and really embraced the story. I took pics. I never want to forget how precious our time doing that was. Here is the link https://kanalykoaster.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-christmas-2011.html .
Merry Christmas!
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