This weekend we helped the children recognize that God created the world and that our world is a gift from God. We helped children understand that it is our responsibility to care for God’s creation.

Last week our lesson left the stage prepared to receive the next step in God’s creation, living creatures. God filled the sky with birds and the seas with sea creatures. With the creation of animals in the waters and in the air comes a blessing. While creation has been affirmed as good, this is the first time that a blessing is given. The blessing is a meaningful image in the Old Testament. With a blessing, one person gives power and vitality to another. In creation, this blessing shows us that animals of all kinds have an important value to God.

This week as you spend time with your children, help them to think about how God richly provides for us through creation. Spend time in prayer, thanking God for His provisions. Also ask God to fill you and your kids with awe and wonder at His creation. You might want to study with your kids an unusual animal, fish, or bird, and discover how awesome God really is. Spend some time thinking about ways you and your kids can be good caretakers of God’s world.

“God saw everything that He had made, and indeed, it was very good”. (Genesis 1:3)