Family Dinner Discussion:
- What makes you feel really jealous?
- Find something about that situation you can thank God for.
Continue the lesson throughout the week: Create a gratitude jar to help combat jealousy.
- Set out slips of paper and a pencil next to a cup or Mason jar. (Or, if your child made a gratitude jar in Sunday school, use that.)
- Encourage family members to each write one thing they’re thankful for each day and put that slip of paper in the jar.
- When someone feels jealous or complains about what they don’t have, that person can pull out a slip of paper and thank God instead of complaining.
The Ten Commandments
The First Commandment
You shall have no other gods.
The Second Commandment
You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God.
The Third Commandment
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
The Forth Commandment
Honor your father and your mother.
The Fifth Commandment
You shall not murder
The Sixth Commandment
You shall not commit adultery
The Seventh Commandment
You shall not steal
The Eighth Commandment
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
The Ninth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not scheme to get our neighbor’s inheritance or house, or get it in a way which only appears right, but help and be of service to him in keeping it.
The Tenth Commandment
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not entice or force away our neighbor’s wife, workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and do their duty.