Marinating On God's Truth!

Tonight at church, my wife and I help lead the childrens group. They are doing a curiculum called "Kids 4 Truth". It really focuses on helping the children to know the truth of God's word through questions/answers and then by memorizing God's Word! It is a lot of fun to help these children with their knowledge of the truth of God's Word!
Last Wednesday night I challenged them to make sure to bring their Bibles and books (Kids 4 Truth books) when the come on Wednesdays so that we can hide God's word in our hearts. I also told them that I was going to be working on Philippians, to memorize it. Tonight I gave the about 20 minutes to work on saying verses to the leaders. They all did very well! I then asked if they remembered what I said I was going to do last week. None of them remembered, unfortunately. I then reminded them and they said, "Oh yeah!" I then preceded to have all of them turn to Philippians 1 and follow along as I quoted that chapter. I was able to do it with only two mistakes! I was kind of disappointed in how I did. They were all surprised. They asked me to share with them the whole book of Philippians when I have it memorized by October 11 and I said I would.
Then I shared with them Psalm 119:9-11. I talked them about the fact that we can cleanse our way by taking heed to God's Word. Then we talked about how when we hide God's Word in our heart it helps us to not sin against God. We can use the verses that we memorize to combat Satan's temptations. I used the illustration of our minds being like a steak and God's Word being a marinade; we need to let our minds marinade on God's Word so that we might soak it up! Then we will have the Word of God dwelling in us richly! This was a lot of fun to talk to them about this! I pray that they will not simply memorize to pass a section but to really hide God's Word in their hearts.
How are you hiding God's Word in your heart? Let me know.

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