Sept 7-13, Come Follow Me, LDS primary lesson helps.
Updated: Sep 3
To “fear God” means to love and obey Him.
To help your children understand passages about fearing God, you could substitute the word “fear” with words like reverence, love, or obedience (see also Hebrews 12:28). How does this affect the way we think about these verses? How do we show that we fear the Lord?
Write these scriptures on your board, and read them together. What could fill in the blanks? Look up the scriptures and find out.
Does God really want us to be afraid of him? To “fear God” means to love and obey Him.
Hand out these cards and put them in the blanks; read them again.
Senior Primary teachers. Now that the lessons are only 25 minutes long, you might find these youth lessons helpful for teaching a more mature group of primary children. Still movement and fun.
I can trust in the Lord with all my heart.
You and your children could make up actions to go with Proverbs 3:5–7, like making a heart with your hands, leaning to one side, walking in place, and pointing to your eyes. How can we show that we trust Jesus Christ with all our hearts?
Cut this out and put it over the top of the picture of Jesus (before class). Read it together as a class several times, then remove a piece and see if the children can still recite the scripture. Then remove another piece and see if they still can say it. They will start to see the picture of Jesus and get excited. Tell them to finish saying the scripture, so you can remove all the pieces. Then let the children hold the picture while you explain what it means to trust in the Lord.
To show what it means to “lean not unto thine own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5), consider inviting your children to lean against something sturdy and stable, like a wall. Then they could try leaning against something that is not sturdy, like a broom. Or they could try leaning a stick or a pencil against objects of varying sturdiness, such as a book or a piece of paper. Why is it important to “trust in the Lord” (verse 5) and not our “own understanding”?
Before stabbing the pencils, talk to the children about what could happen. Afterward, talk about not trusting in our understanding but in God, who has seen the whole picture.
I can use kind words.
Perhaps you and your children can think of situations when you or they might feel angry. Read Proverbs 15:1 together, and help your children apply this verse to the situations they thought of. Maybe they could practice some “soft answers.” A song about kindness, such as “Love Is Spoken Here” (Children’s Songbook, 190–91), could reinforce this principle.
Two human fingers go into the puppets to make feet(:
Sing a song about kindness, such as “Kindness Begins with Me” (Children’s Songbook, 145). What does the song teach us about being kind?
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