Teach Your Children About God PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

10 Teach Your Children About Godunderstand more fully what a faithful friend his spiritualFather is.God Is Creator"Since earliest times men have seen the earth and thesky and all God made, and have known of His existenceand great eternal power. So they have no excuse for sayingthere is no God" (Rom. 1:20, The Living Bible). Thephysical world and its laws that surround us are concrete,measurable evidence of God the Creator.Teach your children that God designed and createdthe earth with all its natural grandeur - its majesticmountains, beautiful productive valleys, innumerablelakes and rivers, etc.Give your child a simple concept of God's strength bypointing out certain parts of the creation that demonstrateHis power. (Read Job 37-41, Isaiah 40, and many ofthe Psalms. These and many other scriptures describeGod's power and authority through the physical creation.)For instance, in pointing out a mountain to your childyou might explain that God not only created the mountains,but also has the power to move and shake them as aperson might shake out a blanket (Amos 4:13; Joel3:16).Even this bit of knowledge is too much of a "hunk" formy four-year-old, so I reduce it to terms he will understand.At his tender age, he really doesn't comprehend theproblems of moving a mountain. But he is very familiarwith the effort he must expend in picking up heavy (tohim) rocks and moving them.Therefore I tell him that God can not only move largemountains, but also very large rocks. As he musters all thestrength in his little forty-pound body to pick up a ten- orfifteen-pound stone, I often point to a giant boulder weighingmultiple tons and casually explain to him that Godhas the strength to move that boulder much more easilythan he is moving his fifteen-pound monolith. At thatpoint he is very impressed with God's power, to say theleast!Do you see now how important it is to explain thingsin terms your child will grasp?