Week 510 · about 45 minutes
Job 38
Job 38 · Memory verse Job 38:7
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 38), the matching word search and answer key (Job 38 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a ribbon
Hold a ribbon. Read Job 38 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 38:7: “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 38?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 38 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,” 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, “Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!” Job 38 opens with these words: “Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,” The line to keep is Job 38:7: “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Carry the word “morning” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 38:7: “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 38? Then try this: Read “when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” 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 38. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 38:7. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 38 and write Job 38:7 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 38:7
“when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 38. Help us remember Job 38:7 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.