A series preparing hearts for Easter… (Day 4)
We pause to listen to His Word, linger, lift up voice in prayer…then go live the Word.
Perhaps gather family to join, cutting out the accompanying artwork and hang symbol on an Easter Passion Tree.
Listen to His Word:
From the Message:
Numbers 21:4-9
4-5 They set out from Mount Hor along the Red Sea Road, a detour around the land of Edom. The people became irritable and cross as they traveled. They spoke out against God and Moses: “Why did you drag us out of Egypt to die in this godforsaken country? No decent food; no water— we can’t stomach this stuff any longer.”
6-7 So God sent poisonous snakes among the people; they bit them and many in Israel died. The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke out against God and you. Pray to God; ask him to take these snakes from us.”
Moses prayed for the people.
8 God said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it on a flagpole: Whoever is bitten and looks at it will live.”
9 So Moses made a snake of fiery copper and put it on top of a flagpole. Anyone bitten by a snake who then looked at the copper snake lived.
Linger…silently meditate on on His Word:
Whoever is bitten and looks at it will live.
(Join children in closing eyes and envisioning the passage…linger.)
Lift up voice in prayer, responding to His Word:
Father, we repent of our grumbling,
our complaining, of all the stuff
we wail that we can no longer stomach.
We’ve been bitten by the snake of discontent.
Cause our eyes to look on Jesus and live.
With Him, don’t we have enough?
Live the Word (contemplate it so long that it settles down into heart, hands, feet):
Today, keep tongues from the sin of ingratitude. When the serpent of discontent bites, choose to look to Jesus Who hung on the tree to give us everything we need. He is our life.
Print, mount, cut, hang art symbol (included above) on Easter Tree
