This week in Living Water, we reviewed why we are learning about God through the "water stories" of the Bible. The Bible begins and ends with water; God's spirit was over the water in creation, and the new creation will end with all of us having access to a river of life flowing from God. The stories we have examined so far have been the Creation (main point - God planned for us), and the Flood ( main point - God feels for us).
This week, we heard again the story of Moses' delivery from the watery Nile and that (main point) God's plan is unstoppable! God's plan, which is to bring everyone to Himself through Jesus, could not be stopped. But, oh, how Pharaoh tried! His first mistake was assuming God's plan could be stopped if He only had girls to work with. I pointed out that it was two girls, the female Hebrew midwives ( I called them baby doctors), who stood up to Pharaoh and said that the Hebrew women didn't even need baby doctors any more, so they enabled women to give birth to boys and hide them safely; it was two women, Moses' mother and sister, who hid the baby and prepared a way for him to float to safety; and it was a girl, the princess, who, even recognizing that the baby was a Hebrew, had pity and saved him. God's plan was not stopped by Pharaoh's plan - God's plan, to rescue His people and prepare them to bear the Messiah who would bring the whole world to God, prevailed. Even through girls.
We then turned to God's plan for us - to come to know Jesus and share Him with others. That plan, too, is unstoppable as it is part of His Big Plan. We thought and wrote in our journals about God's unstoppable plan for us this week - maybe to share Jesus with someone, maybe to grow closer to Him through prayer and study.
Oh, and there was fun too - silly string, plastic babies, lego palaces, and the slip and slide and tons of water!
So, ask your kids about any and all of it, and hear what God is doing in their lives! What did they think God's plan will be for them this week, and how can we, as parents, celebrate that God is doing something unstoppable in our kids?
This week, we heard again the story of Moses' delivery from the watery Nile and that (main point) God's plan is unstoppable! God's plan, which is to bring everyone to Himself through Jesus, could not be stopped. But, oh, how Pharaoh tried! His first mistake was assuming God's plan could be stopped if He only had girls to work with. I pointed out that it was two girls, the female Hebrew midwives ( I called them baby doctors), who stood up to Pharaoh and said that the Hebrew women didn't even need baby doctors any more, so they enabled women to give birth to boys and hide them safely; it was two women, Moses' mother and sister, who hid the baby and prepared a way for him to float to safety; and it was a girl, the princess, who, even recognizing that the baby was a Hebrew, had pity and saved him. God's plan was not stopped by Pharaoh's plan - God's plan, to rescue His people and prepare them to bear the Messiah who would bring the whole world to God, prevailed. Even through girls.
We then turned to God's plan for us - to come to know Jesus and share Him with others. That plan, too, is unstoppable as it is part of His Big Plan. We thought and wrote in our journals about God's unstoppable plan for us this week - maybe to share Jesus with someone, maybe to grow closer to Him through prayer and study.
Oh, and there was fun too - silly string, plastic babies, lego palaces, and the slip and slide and tons of water!
So, ask your kids about any and all of it, and hear what God is doing in their lives! What did they think God's plan will be for them this week, and how can we, as parents, celebrate that God is doing something unstoppable in our kids?
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