What Is Your Treasure?
Children's sermon
The Giant Book Of Children's Sermons
Matthew To Revelation
Object: a pocket knife, a baseball glove, and a doll
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have a treasure? (let them answer) Very good, a lot of you have some treasure. What kind of treasure do you have? (let them answer) I brought along some things that I thought might be a treasure to you. A treasure is something very important to you, something that is worth almost more than anything you can think of, when you think of things that you want or have.
When I was a boy, I always thought that my baseball glove was the most important treasure that I had, and I would not have given it up for anything. My brother always wanted a pocket knife that he could carry with him. When he was old enough to have a knife, he got one, and he still carries it with him today. My sister was not too interested in ball gloves and pocket knives, but she loved her doll. That was really "it" for her, and she would take the doll with her wherever she went, even to bed when she went to sleep at night. She loved that doll with all of her heart, just like my brother loved his knife and I loved my ball glove.
Jesus knew how people love things, and he thought that this was all right, even good, as long as we remember what love is really meant to be. Jesus told us that we should not love gloves, knives, money, dolls, gold, cars, or anything more than we love people, and especially God. Loving our treasure can be wrong if we love it more than we love God and people. When we love our things more than we love God and people, it makes us greedy and unkind. Nothing is as important as God, and we should love him the most. Next to God is our love for each other, and when we share our love with each other instead of loving things, then we are also doing right. But if we love money or whatever is special to us, we end up trying to hurt others so that we can have more things. If we try to keep things such as food and clothes to ourselves, even when others need them, then we have wars or fights. But when you love God, it means that you want to share things that you have. You may even share your most important treasure, even if it is your ball glove or your knife or your doll.
When you learn to share your treasure at your age, you will then be ready to share your money, your food, and whatever else is important to you when you grow older.
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have a treasure? (let them answer) Very good, a lot of you have some treasure. What kind of treasure do you have? (let them answer) I brought along some things that I thought might be a treasure to you. A treasure is something very important to you, something that is worth almost more than anything you can think of, when you think of things that you want or have.
When I was a boy, I always thought that my baseball glove was the most important treasure that I had, and I would not have given it up for anything. My brother always wanted a pocket knife that he could carry with him. When he was old enough to have a knife, he got one, and he still carries it with him today. My sister was not too interested in ball gloves and pocket knives, but she loved her doll. That was really "it" for her, and she would take the doll with her wherever she went, even to bed when she went to sleep at night. She loved that doll with all of her heart, just like my brother loved his knife and I loved my ball glove.
Jesus knew how people love things, and he thought that this was all right, even good, as long as we remember what love is really meant to be. Jesus told us that we should not love gloves, knives, money, dolls, gold, cars, or anything more than we love people, and especially God. Loving our treasure can be wrong if we love it more than we love God and people. When we love our things more than we love God and people, it makes us greedy and unkind. Nothing is as important as God, and we should love him the most. Next to God is our love for each other, and when we share our love with each other instead of loving things, then we are also doing right. But if we love money or whatever is special to us, we end up trying to hurt others so that we can have more things. If we try to keep things such as food and clothes to ourselves, even when others need them, then we have wars or fights. But when you love God, it means that you want to share things that you have. You may even share your most important treasure, even if it is your ball glove or your knife or your doll.
When you learn to share your treasure at your age, you will then be ready to share your money, your food, and whatever else is important to you when you grow older.
