The Red Shawl
with scripture encouraging remembrance
Children love to play dress up, make-believe, and role play. It stimulates their imagination and makes them more creative. It also gives them practice in a safe environment in order that when situations arise in real life they have already experienced them on some level. Reenacting also enables young and old alike to remember. God encourages His people to remember by repeating important Kingdom events.
He told the Israelites in Exodus 12:14, “And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.” Likewise, Jesus taught the disciples to observe Holy Communion, “in remembrance of me.” In Deuteronomy 31, God tells Moses to write a song, put it in their mouths, and teach it to the children in order that it can bear witness to God’s works. Scripture commands in 1 Chronicles 16:12 “Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;”
Deuteronomy 11:18-22
18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign upon your hand,
that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children,
speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house,
and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down,
and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the
door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
God chose that the blood of the lamb placed on the lintel at Passover be remembered every year in order that when Jesus came as the perfect sacrifice all would recognize the story. The ordinance of Communion further memorializes the redemption of sin which Jesus won for us at The Cross of Calvary. God said, “And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.”
As King Darius wrote in his decree: “In every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth.”
I encourage parents to teach their children the wonderful stories from the Bible which will help them to understand the character and wonders of God, the divine, sacrificial life of His son, Jesus, and the acts of The Holy Spirit.
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