God's Awesome CreationSample

Title: Diamonds in the Sky

GENESIS 1: 14-19 “And God said, Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.”

Have you ever been camping and suddenly you look up at the dark sky and see hundreds and hundreds of twinkling stars? Isn’t it incredible to see so many of them all at once? The sky actually looks like an open cave filled with diamonds!

Did you know you can only see about 2,000 stars on a very dark night? Our eyes can’t see more than that–we would need a telescope to peek through and check thousands of them shining brightly.

But that’s not all. There are about 200-400 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. That means that there are more than 100, more than 1000, over 10,000, more than 1 million, more than 3 million, and more than 10 million stars! There are so many that you can’t count them! Wow!

In the verse we read it says that God “made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night.

Do you know what the greater light could mean?

Yes, correct! The sun! God created the sun to give us warmth when it’s cold. He created it so that when mums wash your clothes and hang them on the washing line, they could dry with the heat and brightness of the sun. He also created it so that we had beautiful summer days and could go swimming in the warm waters of the ocean, lake, or river. He also created it so that in a cold winter day, we could get some warmth from the shining rays. God thought of everything. But he also created the lesser light to govern the night? DO you know what that is? Yes, that’s right! The Moon!

God created the moon so that it could shine during the dark nights. If the moonlight is shining, we can see the dark path we are walking on. God thought of everything for us! He is an awesome God!

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS

1. Do you have a favourite star?

2. Why are you glad that God created the sun?

3. Why are you glad God created the moon?

PRAYER

Dear Jesus, thank you for being an awesome God! Thank you for making the stars shine at night, and the warm sun brightens our days. Please help me be kind to my friends and bring a little bit of sunshine into their lives. In your name, amen.