🔥 Malachi 2

Malachi 2 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, ““Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.” Malachi 2 opens with these words: ““Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.” The line to keep is Malachi 2:5: ““My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my…” Carry the word “covenant” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Malachi 2:5: ““My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Malachi 2? Then try this: Read ““My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.