Babies Need the Bible Too

Let your babies touch the Bible.  The actual book.  Little babies touch and even taste everything they come in contact with.  They explore and learn about what God's world is all about.  But we as parents are too quick to snatch up our "good" Bible and say no no to little fingers that want to touch it.  Yes, we need to teach our babies to be gentle, to be careful with books.  But the Bible is for all of us.  We don't want to send the message to our little ones that the Bible is just not for them.  

So, just for a minute, pull your baby up into your lap and let him/her touch the Bible.  Wrinkled pages can be smoothed and drool can be wiped away.  As you let little one touch the Bible, teach them that the Bible is a special book, that God gave us the Bible, and everything the Bible says is from God.  And if she takes a little taste, that's okay too.  Didn't Ezekiel?

"God said, '[Ezekiel], eat this scroll I am giving to you.' So [he] ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in [his] mouth."  Ezekiel 3:3

Special thanks to my friend J. Hoskins for the pic of her peanut's hand.