the first thousand

After chatting with friends the other night about what is worth putting effort into, what is worth being intentional about, what is worth spending your life on, I have been pondering what we are teaching our children through the memory verses we recite.

Society tells us it’s good to get rich, be successful and even famous if possible, buy label clothing, mortgage a house, drive an unpaid-for-car, put a holiday on the card, be entertained, be academic, be slim, be green….
 
According to some of the verses we’ve chosen, what does the Bible tell us to get?

• Get a secure fortress
• Get life
• Get ambition
• Get patriotic
• Get something for yourself
• Get working
• Get imitating
• Get thinking
• Get transforming
• Get walking (with the wise)
• Get denying

Thanks for the gift of these things to think about over the next few days (271)