SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN: “Living For Jesus”
*DAILY BREAD: A DEVOTIONAL FOR THE CHILDREN*
Eastern Nigeria Union Conference Children’s Ministries Department
*THEME: I WILL GO*
Tuesday 04 January, 2022.
*TOPIC: LIVING FOR JESUS*
_But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and tame animals with him in the boat. God made a wind blow over the earth. And the water went down”. (Genesis 8:1)_
A number of things have happened in the world over the decades and generations since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden. First, the population of people grew significantly just as God had envisioned and commissioned Adam and Eve to do – “fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Second, (and most unfortunate) as the population of people grew and spread out, so did sin and evil. The sin and evil of the people grew so much that our chapter today says that God was grieved that He had even made people (verse 8). Yet there was one person who had not fallen under the influence of sin and evil – a man named Noah. This is a pattern we’ll see throughout the Bible. God always seemed to have at least one person (a remnant) that stays faithful to Him. God planned to bring judgment to the world for the evil that had infested it. God literally planned to wash away all the people and with them the evil and sin they had brought into the world. Yet God choose this one righteous man named Noah to save the future of the human race (along with two pairs of all the clean animals and a pair of unclean animals that walked the earth). This is another idea that we’ll see flow throughout all of Scripture – one righteous person saving all of God’s people.
*THOUGHT REFLECTIONS:*
1. Righteousness means to be right with God. Noah must have lived differently to have been chosen as righteous. Does your life reflect one that is living right with God? If not, what changes can you make today in your lifestyle?
2. God was grieved (sad) about how humans were acting. Do you think we make God sad every time we sin? Take a moment to confess, He desires to forgive you.
*SONG*
I’ll live for Jesus, day after day. I’ll live for Jesus, let come what may. The Holy Spirit, I will obey. And live for Jesus, day after day.
Through every day, new joy I find. He gives to me, real peace of mind. Until that day, when Christ I’ll see. I’ll live for Him, who died for me!
I’ll live for Jesus, day after day. I’ll live for Jesus, let come what may. The Holy Spirit, I will obey. And live for Jesus, day after day
*PRAYER*
Thank You Jesus for loving us and remembering your promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Grant us same grace like Noah and his family and help us to live righteously and represent you well in Jesus name. Amen.
