If, during that time, I do not live out loving God, ten minutes of coloring and washing is probably useless. That leaves a remaining 13 hours and 50 minutes of waking time in which my children see me respond to a myriad of situations. I am also reminded, even as I type this, that this activity took about ten minutes. I want to very clear that I don't believe JUST doing something like this with our kids will do anything miraculous (see this post), but I do believe that God can USE it to do something miraculous in their hearts. I wasn't sure how much my kids would connect with this activity, if they could grasp such an analogy. "Look! The heart is clean! Who cleans our hearts? Can we clean our hearts by ourselves? What if we try REALLY REALLY REALLY hard? Which kind of heart do you want to have? Let's thank God that He cleans our hearts." Who is the one who washes our hearts clean of sin? Can we do that by ourselves? Another verse in the Bible says, 'Wash me clean from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin' (Psalm 51:2). We can ask God to clean our hearts and because Jesus died for us, He will. There is a verse in the Bible that says, 'Create in me a CLEAN heart' (Psalm 51:10). While washing: "Because Jesus died on the cross for us, our hearts don't have to be filled with yucky sin. Do you want your heart to look yucky like that?" When you were born your hearts were sinful, when Mommy and Daddy were born our hearts were sinful, every baby has a sinful heart.except for Jesus. While coloring: "When we were born as tiny babies our hearts were already filled with yucky black sin. Underneath each picture, I have written the dialogue that I shared with my kids while we were doing the "official" thing. The pictures you see here were taken after we did the "official" activity.more of a free play time. It works! The first time we did this, I did not take any pictures as I wanted to be focused on what was happening and be able to talk with my kids. I didn't really believe the marker would come off, so as any good teacher would, I tested it first. We then cleaned the hearts by washing them in the soapy water. Here's the gist of it: The kids colored on their hearts using washable markers to represent the sin in their own hearts.
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