I'm Somebody!
Children's sermon
A Time To Plant
52 Children's Sermons
Object:
A shepherd figurine or ornament.
Look at my little shepherd friend here. (Display figurine/ornament.) What do you know about shepherds? (Children respond.) They took care of sheep. They lived out in the field with the flock. Let's think about this. If shepherds lived out in the field with a bunch of sheep, where did they sleep and where did they take a bath?
Hmm ... they must have been dirty and smelly. In biblical times, people didn't pay much attention to shepherds. Shepherds did their job and left everyone else alone. No one thought a shepherd was worth worrying about. They didn't make much money, they weren't very clean, and they lived with animals. They just didn't matter a great deal to anyone. They were unimportant.
But that all changed one night when the shepherds were out in the field watching their sheep. Suddenly, an angel appeared to the them and told them that Jesus Christ had been born in Bethlehem. This was the most important news in the world and the angel told the shepherds about it first!
Imagine that. Here were shepherds who didn't matter to anybody. Shepherds who no one cared about or paid any attention to, and yet God decided they should be the first ones on earth to receive the good news that Jesus had been born.
That tells us something about God. It tells us that God doesn't care how much money we have. God doesn't care where we live or what we look like. He doesn't care what kind of job we have as long as it's honest. God doesn't even care if no one else thinks we matter, because we matter to him. We might be "nobodies" to everyone else, but each of us is a "somebody" to God.
God could have sent his angel to the kings and rich people first, but he chose to deliver his precious message to the lowly shepherds.
When you are feeling small and as if you do not matter, remember the shepherds and remember that you will always matter to God. Merry Christmas and God bless you.
Hmm ... they must have been dirty and smelly. In biblical times, people didn't pay much attention to shepherds. Shepherds did their job and left everyone else alone. No one thought a shepherd was worth worrying about. They didn't make much money, they weren't very clean, and they lived with animals. They just didn't matter a great deal to anyone. They were unimportant.
But that all changed one night when the shepherds were out in the field watching their sheep. Suddenly, an angel appeared to the them and told them that Jesus Christ had been born in Bethlehem. This was the most important news in the world and the angel told the shepherds about it first!
Imagine that. Here were shepherds who didn't matter to anybody. Shepherds who no one cared about or paid any attention to, and yet God decided they should be the first ones on earth to receive the good news that Jesus had been born.
That tells us something about God. It tells us that God doesn't care how much money we have. God doesn't care where we live or what we look like. He doesn't care what kind of job we have as long as it's honest. God doesn't even care if no one else thinks we matter, because we matter to him. We might be "nobodies" to everyone else, but each of us is a "somebody" to God.
God could have sent his angel to the kings and rich people first, but he chose to deliver his precious message to the lowly shepherds.
When you are feeling small and as if you do not matter, remember the shepherds and remember that you will always matter to God. Merry Christmas and God bless you.
