Kids are sponges.
So often, they pick up messages in the world around them and may carry them around as truth for years, no matter how true those messages may actually be.
Speaking into the life of a child doesn’t always feel easy: when they look into your eyes and you see them, ready to learn from you or have a question answered, the pressure to say just the right thing can be intimidating!
But if you know Jesus, you are not in those conversations by yourself.
Your job is to let His love and His Word flow through you. And His love tells that child…
You have VALUE. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalm 139:14-16
You are SAFE. “He will not let your foot slip—He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD watches over you…He will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” - Psalm 121:3-5a,7b-8
You have HOPE, beyond your circumstances. “Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” - Romans 5:1-5
All that we need is found in our Savior. And we have the gift of sharing this life-changing hope with every child that comes across our path.