Large Or Small
Children's sermon
From a Mustard Seed
Children's Sermons
Object:
Five sheets of paper, 8 1/2 x 11, each with a word printed on it - moving from very large print which can be seen at a distance to very small print; a magnifying glass.
Message: Have you seen those charts used at the eye doctor's office? The doctor has a long chart on the wall with different letters on it and he asks you to read each line to see how good your vision is. Have any of you ever done that? How about the eye test they give in school, when you look into the machine and have to show which way the Es are going. Can you show me how you do that with your hand?
Today I don't have an eye chart like that, but I do have a number of words printed on paper. I want you to tell me if you can see each of these. In fact, we are going to get the grown-ups involved in this, too. How many of you in the church can read this sign? (Show the largest print.) Okay, good. Now, how many can read this one? (Show the next largest print and continue toward the smallest.) This one is so small I can hardly read it and I'm standing right next to it! Let's see if a magnifying glass would help out. There, now we can read it.
Did you know that a lot of people in the world feel that they must be this small in the eyes of God? (Refer to the smallest print.) They feel that their lives are so unimportant, or that they have done so many wrong things in life, that God just cannot be interested in them. However, the Bible tells us a much different story! God loves each of us so much that He can look at every person in this entire world and know everything about him or her. He knows what we like and what we don't like. He knows when we go to bed at night and when we wake up in the mornings. He even knows what we had for breakfast this morning.
So even though we say God is up in heaven and that can seem so far away, we should never feel that He sees us like this (again refer to the smallest print), because He cares for the birds of the skies and the flowers of the field and He cares for us every day!
Today I don't have an eye chart like that, but I do have a number of words printed on paper. I want you to tell me if you can see each of these. In fact, we are going to get the grown-ups involved in this, too. How many of you in the church can read this sign? (Show the largest print.) Okay, good. Now, how many can read this one? (Show the next largest print and continue toward the smallest.) This one is so small I can hardly read it and I'm standing right next to it! Let's see if a magnifying glass would help out. There, now we can read it.
Did you know that a lot of people in the world feel that they must be this small in the eyes of God? (Refer to the smallest print.) They feel that their lives are so unimportant, or that they have done so many wrong things in life, that God just cannot be interested in them. However, the Bible tells us a much different story! God loves each of us so much that He can look at every person in this entire world and know everything about him or her. He knows what we like and what we don't like. He knows when we go to bed at night and when we wake up in the mornings. He even knows what we had for breakfast this morning.
So even though we say God is up in heaven and that can seem so far away, we should never feel that He sees us like this (again refer to the smallest print), because He cares for the birds of the skies and the flowers of the field and He cares for us every day!
