It is my month to teach Junior Church on Sunday mornings. For our congregation, when it is time for the sermon, the students (Kindergarten to 6th graders) are dismissed to their own classroom. The teachers rotate each month, and we are allowed to run the class the best we see fit. As you can imagine, teaching such a wide range of kids can be a challenge. To make the lessons teachable, I break it up into different activities. The theme for this month is “Move”, about times in the Bible when God told people to do something big, like move away from your hometown and family, or lead a million oppressed people into their own land.
Are you listening to God’s voice? Is He telling you to do something? Abraham and Moses were told to do some really big and important things, but they were also promised really big things. God has always held up His end. God may not be telling you to do really big things, but He may be telling you to do something different.
Genesis 12:1-5 (New International Version)
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.[a]3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse;and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”[b]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
