God Is Above ad: Grandparents, please don’t make this mistake

A grandmother once sent us one sentence, and I still haven’t stopped thinking about it. I’m not a grandmother. I work at the small Christian gift company that makes the Bible Verse Jar. Part of my job is reading every review that comes in. I’m telling you that upfront, because what I’m about to share only matters if you can trust it. We’ve sent out more than 300,000 gifts. And the reviews that stop me cold usually aren’t about the jar. They’re about grandparents. ======== Maybe this sounds familiar. You’ve loved the Lord your whole life. And you’re watching your grandchildren grow up in a world with less and less room for Him. Their parents are good people, just busy, and maybe they drifted from church years ago. Maybe someone has already said it to you, kindly or not so kindly: “Please stop preaching to the kids.” So you’ve been careful. You gave them a Bible, a good one, and it’s on a shelf somewhere. You sent a verse in the family group chat, and it got a thumbs-up. And little by little, you went quiet. Not because your faith got smaller. Because you were scared of losing your place in their lives. Here’s something I didn’t know until I started reading these reviews. Lifeway Research found that two out of three young people who went to church regularly as teenagers stop going for at least a year after high school. Most of them never planned to leave. But when the researchers looked at who stays, a few things kept showing up. Parents who were involved. Reading the Bible regularly. And other adults who invested in them. Grandparents are those adults. ======== THE MISTAKE GRANDPARENTS ALMOST MAKE They see a little jar of verses and think it’s too small. It’s not a real Bible, it’s not enough, and my grandchild needs the whole Word, not a handful of folded slips. I understand, and I’d think the same. But here’s what the reviews taught me. The Bible was never the problem, because it’s the most important book there is. The problem is where a child is supposed to start. Over a thousand pages, and no idea which one is meant for today. To a nine-year-old, that can look a lot like homework from Grandma. A jar looks like something else entirely. ======== HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS It’s a small handmade glass jar filled with 90 tiny folded slips in six colors. Every slip is one Bible verse. On the front is a little label that says “Read me when…” Yellow is for happy. Light pink is for thankful. Hot pink is for angry. Green is for anxious. Light blue is for lonely. Blue is for sad. So your grandchild doesn’t open to page one. They ask themselves one question: how do I feel right now? They reach for that color, unfold one slip, and read one verse. Nervous before a big test, they might pull green and read “Fear thou not; for I am with thee” from Isaiah 41:10. That’s it, about twenty seconds. No lecture, no reading plan, and nobody standing over them. Just God’s Word, one verse at a time, right when they need it. ======== WHAT GRANDPARENTS TELL US HAPPENS NEXT This is the part I wish everyone could read. Donna sent us one line: “My grandchild shared a first verse with me through a text. I was thrilled.” Vasanthi wrote that her grandchildren loved picking a colour and discovering what God said to them. Marie gave one to her daughter, who has two grammar-school boys. They go to it every day, and whatever they’re feeling, they find a verse for it. Mark’s five-year-old picks one every morning before school. Miriam’s daughter moved far from home, and the jar is there for the nights she feels sad or anxious about being so far away. And Carol bought a jar for her granddaughter last year. This year she came back for her grandsons. ======== THE SIDE EFFECT NOBODY EXPECTS Grandparents buy it for the kids. Then the reviews start mentioning everyone else in the house. One customer wrote that it has created so many great family conversations. Marie, the same grandmother, said she finds peace when she reads the slips herself. Even the angry slips get used. One husband told us his wife keeps pulling the “angry” ones, and he’s fairly sure it’s about the dog. That’s what surprised me most. A gift meant for one grandchild can quietly become something the whole family reaches for. ======== WHY THE USUAL APPROACHES DON’T WORK ❌ Another Bible: beautiful and meaningful, and too often still on the shelf. ❌ Verses in the group chat: they feel like a message from you, not from God, and they’re easy to scroll past. ❌ A devotional book: one more thing to keep up with, and easy to fall behind on. ❌ Saying more: the harder we push, the further they pull away. None of these are wrong. They just ask a young person to come all the way over to us. The jar meets them where they already are. ======== IT DOESN’T REPLACE ANYTHING Let me say this clearly, because I know it’s the question in the back of your mind. This is not instead of the Bible. It’s not a shortcut, and it’s not “Bible lite.” Every slip is Scripture. It’s a door into the Word, small enough for a child’s hand. One verse becomes a favorite. A favorite becomes a question. And one day, the Bible on the shelf gets opened. ======== IF YOU’RE A GRANDPARENT WHO… Gave a Bible that’s still sitting on a shelf. Was asked to stop “preaching” and went quiet to keep the peace. Lies awake wondering what your grandchildren will have from you when you’re gone. Feels like the last one in the family still praying for them. Please hear this. You don’t have to choose between pushing and giving up. You can put one small thing within their reach, and leave the rest to God. ======== THE PRACTICAL PART Every jar is handmade and arrives in a gift box, ready to give. Reviewer after reviewer mentions how beautifully it arrives. Shipping is free, and the jars are 60% off right now. You also get a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if it isn’t right, you get every cent back. Every grandchild’s way in will be different. One reaches for green before a test. Another pulls light blue on a lonely night. Another grabs yellow just because the day was good. There’s no wrong color. Every jar is made by hand, one at a time. Which means we honestly can’t make them fast enough. Every new batch is gone almost as soon as it’s ready. If the link below still works, there are still jars left. If it doesn’t, this batch is gone and the next one is still being made. 👉 https://godisabove.com/pages/grandparents-secret-7-reasons-why P.S. Yes, I work here, so of course I’d love for you to order. But the part of this job I’ll never get used to is what grandparents send back. If your grandchild ever texts you a verse, I hope you’ll tell us.