Week 783 · about 45 minutes
Jeremiah 2
Jeremiah 2 · Memory verse Jeremiah 2:28
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Jeremiah 2), the matching word search and answer key (Jeremiah 2 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Jeremiah 2 in about four minutes, stopping at Jeremiah 2:28: ““But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Jeremiah 2?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Jeremiah 2 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,” 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, ““Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.” Jeremiah 2 opens with these words: “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,” The line to keep is Jeremiah 2:28: ““But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you…” Carry the word “gods” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Jeremiah 2:28: ““But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Jeremiah 2? Then try this: Read ““But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time…” 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 Jeremiah 2. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Jeremiah 2:28. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Jeremiah 2 and write Jeremiah 2:28 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Jeremiah 2:28
““But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Jeremiah 2. Help us remember Jeremiah 2:28 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.