Where’s Your Bread?
Child: Hey, don't go away. It's time to read Keys for Kids.
Uncle Charlie: Hi, Uncle Charlie here. And it is time to read Keys for Kids, A scripture and a good story for the day. And we'll get to that right after we have some music. You always like to hear our kids sing, so let's join them as they do some wondering.
Child: Do you wonder why it is I love him? I love him, I love him. Do you wonder why it is I love him? I will gladly tell you why it's because he left his home in glory to die for me.
This is why I cannot help but love him Jesus Christ, who died for me.
Uncle Charlie: Psalms 119, starting at verse 97. Oh, how love I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Verse 99 says, I have more understanding than all my teachers. Verse 100 says, I understand more than the ancients because I keep thy precepts. And verse 101 is such a good one, I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep thy word.
Phil and Penny Wilson went to visit one of their favorite people, a man known in their town as Grandpa Benjamin. He liked to quote Scriptures. Isn't it hard to remember verses, Gramps? Phil asked Penny and I have to learn a lot of verses for our Bible club. But sometimes when we have so many, it's hard to remember them all. Well, asked Gramps, do you know your phone number? Sure I do, answered Phil. What about your locker combination or your post office box? Aren't those hard to remember? No, said Phil. They're easy. I just put my mind to them and I use them a lot. Well, replied Gramps, it's like that with the word of God.
We remember what's important to us and what we use a lot. He sniffed the air. Hey, if my sniffer's still working, I smell fresh bread. You're right, said Penny. Mom sent this loaf over for you. Well, that was so kind of your mom. Gramps took the loaf of bread, set it on the living room table next to the lamp there. It'll look good in that spot, don't you think? But Gramps, the children protested. If you let it just sit there, it won't do you any good. What do you think I ought to do with it, then? Why eat it, of course? I thought you'd see it my way. Just as we need bread or food each day for our bodies, so we need the word of God each day for our soul. Psalm 119, verse 103 says, how sweet are thy words unto my taste yea, sweeter than honey. The bread doesn't do any good on the table. And God's word doesn't do any good on the bookshelf. We need to taste it by reading it and digest it by memorizing it. Getting it into our hearts so it can work in our lives. Now, you kids better get home, thank your mother for the bread and keep on learning your verses.
Well, how about you? Where is your.
Where is your Bible? Are you letting it just lie on the table or are you using it? Are you eating it? Do you take some nourishment from God's word each day as you daily read a chapter from the Bible or maybe just a few verses a day? What a wonderful help it will be because you will be feeding yourselves on the word of God. Also, do your best to memorize a verse at least once a week. In fact, here's a good verse to memorize. It's Matthew 4. 4. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Hey, we ought to be reading God's word every day. That's what our key thought is. This has been Keys for Kids, a presentation of the Children's Bible Hour. I'm Uncle Charlie, inviting you to join us again soon for another Keys for Kids.