I have a chair I am sitting in while I type this
lesson to you. It is big and black with soft padding, a high back, and wheels.
Every day I go to that chair and I sit right down. I don’t worry if it will not
hold me. I never go to the chair and say, “Large Black Chair will you hold me
up today? Are you strong enough? Can I trust you to do what you have been
designed to do?” That would be silly! I just go and sit down on it. When I go
to someone’s house, church, school, or a restaurant, I sit on the chair that is
available to me. I don’t even think about it. I just sit down.
God wants us to trust Him like that. He doesn’t want
us to say, “Large, big, powerful, creator God, will you hold me up today? Are
you strong enough? Can I trust you to do what you have said you will do?" That
would be like when I talked to the chair. It’s silly! God, the Lord Jesus, is all
powerful! He created, or made, the stars and the world with everything in it out of nothing! He holds it all together in His mighty hand!
Let me ask you a question. Can you see the wind? You
probably shook your head no. You can see its strength when you see trees moving
in it. But you still cannot see it. Wind is important to us because it moves our
weather around. We get rain and snow because wind blows clouds together. Wind helps
clouds pull water from the oceans. Clouds need water from the oceans to make
rain and snow. Wind that is moving fast makes a howling noise, but each piece of
wind doesn’t make a noise. So, we really cannot hear, or see wind.
Do you know what gravity is? Gravity is the pull the
earth has on objects. When I jump in the air, I come right back down. Try it.
Get up and jump. Are you still up in the air? No, I don’t think so. That would
be amazing if you were. You landed on the floor. You cannot see gravity, hear
it, or touch it. But it is still there. Gravity is important because without it
we would float away! It is what keeps us on the earth.
How about air? You breathe it and your body needs it
or you would die. It is very important. You cannot taste, see, hear, or feel
it. The only time you can feel it is when something blows it on you, but if
there is not that movement you do not feel it.
We all need air, gravity, and wind for us to
survive. We have them all around us all the time, but we cannot see, hear, or
touch them. Air, gravity, and wind exist even though we cannot see, hear, or touch them.
God exists although we cannot see, hear, or touch Him. Gen. 1:1a says, In the beginning God… God has always existed
and always will exist. He is what we call eternal. He has always been and will
always be. That is hard to understand because we live in time. God does not
live in time. He created time for us. He lives outside of time.
Faith in God can sometimes be difficult because you
cannot see, hear, or touch Him. The Bible is God’s word and it says in Rom.
10:17 So then faith comes from hearing
and hearing by the word of God. Where do we get faith? We get it from God’s
word. The more you read or hear God’s word, the more faith you receive. God gives
us faith if we ask Him for it.
Why do we need faith? We need faith, which is
trusting and believing in Jesus and what He did on the cross, for forgiveness
of our sin. When we trust or have faith in Jesus, we can go to heaven someday.
We also need faith to please God. Heb. 11:6 But
without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must
believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
This verse says we please him by having faith in Him. We need faith. We need to
believe that God is real. He rewards
children and adults who look to find Him. We find Him in His word, the Bible.
You may not be able to read all the words in the
Bible. An adult or order child can help you. Listening to someone read to you
out of the Bible, or listening to a Bible lesson, is the same as reading it. You have been learning about God today just by
listening to or reading this lesson. Good Job! You are on your way to growing
your faith!
Every time I sit on that big black chair, I know it
will hold me up. Sometimes I sit in a chair and I hold three of my
grandchildren! You know what? The chair holds all four of us! Every second I
take a breath I know I will breathe in air. Every day, every second, I know
gravity will keep me on the earth. I don’t float all around the room. The wind is
also there every moment, moving our weather every day.
Just like these things always happen without us
seeing, hearing or touching them, we know they are there and they help us. That
is the same with God. He is always there helping me. More importantly, God created
and controls the gravity, wind, and the air we breathe. He is more powerful
than anything! The Bible says, even the winds obey Him.
At the beginning of this lesson, I said faith is
believing or trusting in something you might not see, hear, or touch. Do you
believe gravity, wind and air exist? That is faith. You believe what you
cannot see, hear, or touch. I have faith in God. He exists even though I have
never seen or touched Him. He Loves me. He created me. He loves you. He created
you to have faith in Him. Do you Have faith in God?
Memorize: Rom. 10:17 So then faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Verses in NKJ unless otherwise stated.
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