Today’s Reading:
Read I Corinthians 12-13
Grab a blank sheet of paper and some crayons or markers. Ask everyone in your family to draw a body. Remember, it’s the process, not the product so have fun drawing even if you’re not a great artist! Share your pictures with each other and talk about the parts of the body that you included in the body. Did anyone leave any body parts out? Anybody draw a body without arms or legs? God made our bodies to have many parts that have different jobs even though they are all part of one body.
Paul’s message to the Corinthians compared their lives as Christ followers and church members to being a part of a body. He reminded them that all parts of the body have an important job. The parts of the body work together so that the body can function the way God intended for it to.
Our lives as believers are the same way! Each person has a different gifting or a different job to do for God. As each one of us does our job, the message of the gospel can be shared with many. We work together like a team!
Paul also reminded the church at Corinth how important it was that everything they did be done in love. He defined what love would look like. “Love is patient. Love is kind. Love does not envy…. it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (I Cor.13:4-7) He encouraged the church to remember that as they were doing what God had called them to do, they needed to do it in love.
Application/Prayer:
Have everyone in your family draw a heart on a sheet of paper. Read 1 Corinthians out loud and encourage everyone to write the words (or draw pictures to represent the words) of everything Paul uses to describe love. (kind, patient, does not envy, etc.) Ask God to help you love others this way!
November Memory Verse:
“The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God remains forever.”
Using the daily reading prompts from George H. Guthrie’s Read the Bible for Life, here’s how to use this devotional:
- Bring your Bible! Your kids need to see that everything you are reading to them or learning about comes from an actual Bible!
- Each day starts with a reading prompt. Read the selection as a family. If your kids are readers, encourage them to read along with you.
- After you’ve read the passage, read the short devotional thought that goes along with each passage.
- Prayer and application are important any time we read God’s word! After each devotional, there is a challenge to help apply what your family has read that day.
- There is a reading for six days of the week. The last reading of the week is a Gospel Conversation Prompt to help you connect the reading from the week with God’s plan for salvation.
Other Resources:
November memory verse coloring sheet
November Fill-in the blank activity