Week 509 · about 45 minutes
Job 37
Job 37 · Memory verse Job 37:15
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 37), the matching word search and answer key (Job 37 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a key
Hold a key. Read Job 37 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 37:15: “Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 37?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 37 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.” 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, “Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.” Job 37 opens with these words: ““Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.” The line to keep is Job 37:15: “Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?” Carry the word “know” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 37:15: “Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 37? Then try this: Read “Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?” 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 37. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 37:15. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 37 and write Job 37:15 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 37:15
“Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 37. Help us remember Job 37:15 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.