Week 496 · about 45 minutes
Job 24
Job 24 · Memory verse Job 24:5
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 24), the matching word search and answer key (Job 24 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a cup of water
Hold a cup of water. Read Job 24 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 24:5: “Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 24?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 24 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, ““These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.” Job 24 opens with these words: ““Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?” The line to keep is Job 24:5: “Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.” Carry the word “behold” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 24:5: “Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 24? Then try this: Read “Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Job 24. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 24:5. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 24 and write Job 24:5 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 24:5
“Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 24. Help us remember Job 24:5 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.