The Law is Given- Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 4:5-6)
While Moses was on Mount Sinai, God gave him laws and decrees for the people. This included the Ten Commandments. These laws were meant to prepare God’s people for life in the land they were entering, the land promised to Abraham. By observing them, it would show their wisdom and understanding to the nations. As the people in the land observed the close relationship between God and his people, they would be drawn to him.
Family Activity
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Activity Time: 12 minutes
Materials: items to make two paths (coins, string, cones, paper arrows, chalk, etc.); items to represent life (treats, healthy plant, fresh fruit, jewels, shiny coins); items to represent death (garbage, dead plant or branch, rotten fruit, broken toy, rusted metal)
Create two paths using chalk, paper arrows, or string. At the end of one path, place items that represent joy and life. At the end of the other path, place items that represent destruction and death. Invite your children to walk along both paths. Afterwards, compare what they found at the end of each. When God gave Israel his laws and commands, he put two choices before them – the path of obedience and the path of disobedience. God knows what is best for his people, and he was clear about what was at the end of each path. Obedience leads to life. Disobedience leads to death. God’s people had to make a choice.
Bible:
Read Deuteronomy 4:5-8; 30:15-20, Proverbs 14:12, and John 14:6 with your family.
Discuss:
1. Tell about a choice you made that had bad consequences. Why is it sometimes difficult to choose the right path?
2. How does this truth encourage followers of Jesus? What other resources has God given our family to help us stay on God’s pathway that leads to life?
Pray:
Ask God to give your family creative ways to demonstrate God’s wisdom and understanding to nonbelievers.
