Who Says?

I have come across many people who have told me that it is pointless to teach my children memory verses at a young age.  I disagreed.  Although B might not understand all of the words to every verse, I believe that God can still speak to him since he has hidden His Word in his heart.  (I'll argue that he knows what some of the verses mean!)  Honestly, I don't know what ALL of the verses mean, but God continues to reveal Himself to me through them one at a time.

Scripture memory is something that I was great at as a child, but not so good at now.  In fact, I remember that one week during  the summer, my father would make us memorize a certain passage of Scripture.  It was kinda fun.  And every morning before school, we would do our devotions with Mom and there was always the verse.  It became a habit for us and I'm thankful that a love for God's Word and learning more about His Word was instilled in us at such an early age. 

I decided that this week was a great week to start memorizing a verse.  I made it fun and introduced it while we were playing with his toys.  He said it back to me a few times and of course I started out easy.  I only gave him the first part of the verse and I'll add the rest over the next couple of weeks.  Now when I ask him what his memory verse is, he says "Children obey your parents."  It's so sweet!  Now...to work on the application of this verse into his life....