Week 753 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 38
Isaiah 38 · Memory verse Isaiah 38:17
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 38), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 38 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Isaiah 38 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 38:17: “Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 38?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 38 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”” 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, “My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.” Isaiah 38 opens with these words: “In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your…” The line to keep is Isaiah 38:17: “Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.” Carry the word “behold” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 38:17: “Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 38? Then try this: Read “Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of…” 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 Isaiah 38. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 38:17. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 38 and write Isaiah 38:17 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 38:17
“Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 38. Help us remember Isaiah 38:17 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.