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Splinks for December 18th - December 24th
1
Good Choices Help You Move Forward
Item needed: small rock
While you are waiting, play rock school. Line the kids up at a designated spot side by side. Put the rock in one of your hands (behind your back so they can’t see which hand the rock is in) and take turns letting each one guess. Hold out both hands and ask them to pick which hand holds the rock. If they guess correctly, they move to the next “grade” in school. (All start out in kindergarten and the first to reach twelfth grade is the winner.) If they guess the empty hand, they must stay in the same grade until the next time they guess the correct hand.
What did you like about this game? (Picking the right hand and moving forward)
What happened when you made the wrong choice? (You had to stay in the same spot)
This was a game about making the right choice and moving forward. God gives us choices—will we obey OR will we disobey His rules? He is pleased when we choose to obey!
2
Now and Later
Give each child a “Now and Later” candy.
Ask:
What did Pharaoh do when Moses told him God’s message to free the people from slavery? (He disobeyed and said, “No!”)
And there were bad consequences or bad results.
There are consequences for disobeying God, maybe right NOW, maybe LATER.
What might be some consequences for stealing a candy bar from the store? (Might get caught and punished, God’s disapproval, guilty conscience, others will not trust us, might even get away with it and think there are no consequences which is a wrong idea)
There are ALWAYS consequences for sin—NOW or LATER! There will be BIG consequences to Pharaoh’s disobedience to God; his entire country will suffer.
3
Obey and DO!
Continue adding straw so baby Jesus will have a soft manger by Christmas morning. Tell the kids at breakfast that throughout the day you will whisper a request to each person; something they can do for another member of the family. (Try to make sure it is during a time when they can quickly and easily do it.)
To OBEY is to actually DO what you are told to do. Obedience is actually doing what you’re told, not thinking about it, planning it, or even intending to do it.
