Would you respond to an unusual request? Lessons from Moses

I had a lot of fun as I researched Mosesand the Burning bush activities for Sunday School.  There’s a lot of fun crafts out there to do, mostly involving making your own version of the Burning Bush.

What I learn from Moses and the Burning Bush

We start the story with Moses as a baby and see him become a murderer, and an outcast, and finally a runaway.  Now, he’s been living in the desert for 40 years, because God likes the number 40, and Moses is 80 years old.

Just think about that for a moment, Moses didn’t being his ministry until he was older than most people retire.  So the next time you’re tempted to think it’s too late to get involved in ministry remember Moses and the Burning Bush.

Also notice, God is using someone who is broken and not particularly known for his speaking skills.  God doesn’t call the trained; He trains the called.  What are you being called to right now?

 

Our Moses and the Burning Bush activities

 

I’m gonna start off saying, I’m tickled as can be that my kids are finally at the point where they can answer the middle kids questions.  It just warms my heart to see them reading the Bible to figure out the answers.

 

The timing of this story worked well because we are also studying snakes right now in our homeschool science, so we got to look at snake skins under a microscope, and are still planning a field trip to look at snakes at the pet store.

 

Then we studied fire.  There’s two reasons for this activity going with Moses and the Burning Bush, first because just like in the title God appeared in a burning bush, and we wanted to compare the burning bush to how fires acted.  The big difference, the fire we built constantly needed more added to it to keep burning, but the fire God spoke through, never needed more added.  {Side note, just as God is complete in and of Himself}.

Second, we talked about our spiritual life.  What does a fire need to grow and keep burning?  If you leave a fire alone, what happens to it?  Well, that fire is just like our faith, if we leave our faith alone it dies, but we can feed our faith just like we feed the fire.  We can go to church, we can read our Bible, we can sing songs to God.  The kids loved this comparison.  That part may not be strictly from Moses and the Burning Bush, but I felt it was a good reminder.

Finally we made a prayer journal, which the kids thought was super fun because they got to tear up paper.  Complete instructions are in the storybook, so I’m not going to explain it here, but the kids all enjoyed creating their own version to write in.

I just realized as I’m updating this post I should explain why a prayer journal.  I notice Moses is quite the man of prayer.  He is constantly going back to God with something else to talk with God about, just as we should be going back to God for prayer.  It makes for a great reminder for us.

More Moses and the Burning Bush acitvities

• Get the lesson we used, and all the discussion questions
• Moses and the burning bush tissue paper craft
• Moses and the burning bush pop-up craft
• Moses and the burning bush suncatcher

 

Wondering what happens next?  Follow Moses as he confronts Pharaoh and says, “Let my people go!”.  Or if you want to cheat and read the whole story head over to the Moses Unit.