Two-Minute Devotions:

What’s a two-minute devotion, you ask? We all want to awaken some spiritual thoughts in our kids’ brains before they head out to face the world at school, but if your house is anything like mine, mornings can be a total whirlwind. And so . . . enter the two-minute devotion! It’s a brief Bible-based discussion designed for school-aged kids, and you can talk about it in two to five minutes around the breakfast table before school. (And hey—there’s no law against doing these devotions later in the day, if your kids aren’t morning people!) 

You Were Made for a Purpose: Ephesians 2:10

“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).

Every human is hand-made, custom-built, and one-of-a-kind . . . all crafted by the loving and skillful hand of God. When I look at my kids, I wonder what God has in mind for them . . . why did he make Cassidy so artistic and soft-hearted, Blake so noble and mathematical, Avery so hilarious and athletic, and Sawyer so spunky and musical? What wondrous purposes does God have in mind for each of them? When I pray about my kids, I ask God to help me shape them into the people he had in mind when he made them . . . to do my part to equip them to fulfill whatever “good works” he’s got planned for them . . . to help them become the best possible versions of themselves they can be. (And then I ask him to help me fulfill the plans he has for MY life—as a Christian, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend, a minister, a writer.) Take some time to talk about the special talents God has given to each person in your family, and have fun dreaming about how God might use those gifts one day . . . those are the talks that inspire kids (and grown-ups!) to WANT to serve God with everything he’s given them!