Once you become part of God’s family, you’ll want to live differently. There are lots of ways. You can read your Bible, come to church, and forgive your friends and family if they do something you don’t like or they hurt your feelings just like God forgave you. The way we choose to live our life and the actions we take, show others that we are a part of God’s family and follow Jesus. Let’s look at some questions and try to answer them to see how our hearts are and how they should change. 

If we want to live differently, we will have to say “NO” to some of the things that don’t make us a good family member. The Bible says that we become a new person!

Ask:

- Do you think about God during the day? Do you pray to Him and tell Him what you need? Do you ask Him questions?

- Do you think bad things about people? Do you say bad things about them in your heart?

- Are kind words coming out of your mouth? Or, are you saying mean, unkind words that aren’t even allowed?

- Do you talk to friends about Jesus, and about how your heart has changed?

- Do you think about your choices before you act and make sure you are pleasing God?

When you have a changed heart, you want to do kind and God pleasing things we’re talking about.

Today’s final bead is green. It reminds me of growing, like a plant; it changes every single day. When you become part of God’s family, you change too! You will be a different person than you were before you believed. As you learn more and more, you’ll change more and more to be like Jesus.