Week 772 · about 45 minutes
Isaiah 57
Isaiah 57 · Memory verse Isaiah 57:11
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Isaiah 57), the matching word search and answer key (Isaiah 57 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read Isaiah 57 in about four minutes, stopping at Isaiah 57:11: ““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Isaiah 57?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Isaiah 57 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.” 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, ““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?” Isaiah 57 opens with these words: “The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from…” The line to keep is Isaiah 57:11: ““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you…” Carry the word “whom” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 57:11: ““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Isaiah 57? Then try this: Read ““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart?…” 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 57. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Isaiah 57:11. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Isaiah 57 and write Isaiah 57:11 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Isaiah 57:11
““Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Isaiah 57. Help us remember Isaiah 57:11 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.