Jesus Loves Me Devotion for Kids

I Bet You Know This Song

You probably learned the song, “Jesus Loves Me” when you were little.         

It’s a song that many people know and remember, for it has an important message that is important for all of us to understand.  It has a message that is true for you, for your friends, for your relatives, and even for old people.

What is the message?

You already know, don’t you?  Jesus loves you.  No matter who you are, where you live, how good or how bad you’ve been, or whether you follow Jesus or not –   Jesus loves you!

Here are the words:

Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong.
They are weak, but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me.  Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells me so.

Jesus’ Love is Not Like People Love

Think about the person who loves you the most.  Maybe it’s Mom, your sister, or you Grandpa.  Whoever it is, even though that person loves you a lot, they mess up sometimes.  They may not be around as often as you’d like them to be.  Or maybe they can’t always keep a promise they made to you because something came up.  Sometimes they might be tired, grumpy, or angry.  You might sometimes feel like they don’t love you.

Even though you love that person a lot, you might not always show them your love either.  Maybe you really love your dad, but you sometimes disobey him or would rather spend time playing a video game than talking to him when he’s around.

You see, “people love” can’t be seen and felt all the time.

But Jesus’s love is much greater.  He is always with us, even though we can’t see Him.  When we talk to Him (pray), He always listens.  He is always trying to show us that His plan for us is the best one – the one that will make us the best person we can be.  But because He loves us, He doesn’t force us to follow His plan.  He invites us to come to Him, but if we don’t, He keeps trying to get our attention so that we can learn to trust and follow Him.

Let’s think about the words to the song, “Jesus Loves Me.”  My grandkids like me to sing the song sort of like the one in this video, using hand slaps and “na na na’s.”

How do we know that Jesus loves us so much?  The answer is in the song.

You’re right!  It’s because the Bible tells us so.  The Bible is God’s special book that He gave to us so that we can come to know Him.  Just as the song says, compared to God, we are weak.  But Jesus is strong.  We need Him in our lives sooooooooo much.

There is another verse that the people in this video didn’t sing.  It goes like this:

Jesus loves me when I’m good, when I do the things I should.
Jesus loves me when I’m bad, though it makes Him very sad.

This is important for us to know.  Jesus doesn’t stop loving us when we do wrong things.  Wrong things are called sin.  He keeps on loving us, even when our sin makes Him sad.

Why Would Jesus Be Sad?

Jesus created people to be His friends.  He wants us to love Him and trust Him so that He can forgive our sins and make us part of His family.  He loves us so much that He came to earth to show people who He is and what He is like.

But many people would not believe in Him.  People had him put to death by hanging Him on a cross to die.  Even when He was hanging there, He expressed His love for those who were killing Him.  He prayed, “Father forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”

Because Jesus is God, He had power over death and came back to life after being buried in a cave-like tomb.  After His resurrection, over 500 people saw Him alive before He went back to Heaven.

Today He is sad when people won’t put their trust in Him.  He loves us so much that He wants us to get to know Him.  He wants to answer our prayers and to guide us through our lives.  And He wants to give us eternal life in Heaven.  But people who refuse to follow Jesus cannot go to Heaven.   It makes Him sad when people go against Him.

How Can You Be Jesus’ Friend?

It’s easy to become Jesus’ friend.  You just pray and ask Him to forgive your sins and to come into your life.  You decide to trust Him and follow Him.  When you do this, you become His follower.  After that, it’s important to read the Bible and have people who know Jesus teach you more about how to follow Him.  Ask Him every day to help you and to keep you in His perfect plan for your life.  Tell Him you love Him,  and then  be quiet and listen for Him to speak inside your spirit to let you know what He wants you to do.  He will show His love to you over and over again.

We know that if we slip up and do something wrong, Jesus will not leave us.  He says in the Bible, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  But when we sin, our hearts are sad until we tell Jesus that we sinned and ask Him to help us to not keep doing it.  He loves to help us when we ask!

Sing Along:  Jesus Loves Me

There are some verses to “Jesus Loves Me” that you might not know.   Try to sing along.  The words are written for you on the video.  While you sing, thank Jesus that He loves you so much.

 

https://youtu.be/o12C8fWzER0

There are lots of different ways to sing “Jesus Loves Me.”  Some people sing it to the Flintstones tune, and others have put it to other tunes.

Here is the song done in American Sign Language.  Can you watch and learn the movements?

Let’s pray now and thank Jesus for loving us.

Dear Jesus,  Thank You for loving me, even when I don’t always do what is right.  I love You and want to always follow You.  Forgive me for the wrong things I’ve done, and let me be your friend.  Help me to follow You all of my life.  Thank You for forgiving me and making me Your child.  Amen.