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What does God know?
Aim
To introduce the idea of God's omniscience.
Two possible approaches to this lesson are outlined below.
Approach 1 - God and Mums
Begin lesson by asking for two volunteers who know each other really well. Ask one of them questions about the other; for example, "What is Adam's favourite food?" Confirm if the responses are correct.
During the interrogation, draw out the distinction between knowing and guessing? Also although the child being asked the questions to admit their ignorance.
Allow a different pair of children to be interviewed.
Hopefully, at end of the interviews, you should be able to establish three different types of response.
- I don't know
- A guess which is either right or wrong
- Certainty.
Who are the people who know most about the children? Their primary carers - usually their mums, dads or grandparents.
If possible, invite one of the children's mums into the class to answer questions about her child.
But are there things which their mums do not know about them?
Ask these questions to the children or directly to the mum (if you have one in the class)
- Does your mum know how many hairs you have on your head?
- Does your mum know your every thought?
- Does your mum know exactly what you are doing now?
- Does your mum know exactly what you are going to say before you say it?
- Does your mum know exactly what you are going tomorrow and every other day for the rest of your life?
Some people believe that only one person knows everything about you and that's God.
Conclude lesson by reading Psalm 139:1-6.
Approach 2 - God and Maths
Help the children to answer these questions. In so doing, draw out the difference between knowing and guessing.
- How many?
- Me? You? The world? (God?)
- How many?
- Eyes? Ears? Legs? Arms? (Has one person got?)
- How many?
- Little pigs? Blind mice?
- How many?
- Fingers / toes on one hand/foot?
- How many?
- Fingers/toes on two hands/feet?
- How many?
- Children in class?
- How many?
- Children in school?
- How many?
- Rice grains in jar?
- How many?
- Hairs on your head?
- How many?
- People in the world?
- How many?
- Drops of water in the ocean?
- How many?
- Grains of sand on the beach?
- How many?
- Stars in the sky? And their names?
Who knows without having to count? According to some people, God does.
This work could be done as a display or for an assembly.
