Week 514 · about 45 minutes
Job 42
Job 42 · Memory verse Job 42:2
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 42), the matching word search and answer key (Job 42 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a smooth stone
Hold a smooth stone. Read Job 42 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 42:2: ““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 42?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 42 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Then Job answered Yahweh,” 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, “So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.” Job 42 opens with these words: “Then Job answered Yahweh,” The line to keep is Job 42:2: ““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.” Carry the word “know” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 42:2: ““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 42? Then try this: Read ““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.” 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 42. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 42:2. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 42 and write Job 42:2 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 42:2
““I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 42. Help us remember Job 42:2 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.