In this week’s Jr church, we were reminded that God made us and knows us. He thinks about us continually and cares about us. We made sand art necklaces to remind us of how much he thinks of us.
To help your kids remember how well God knows them, do this activity using your child(ren)'s sand art necklace (yes! definitely keep the sand inside) or you can gather a small handful of dirt or sand and put it in a bowl. Ask your kids to count the individual grains. Ask for a guess of the number of grains in the bowl.
Say: We will probably never know the number of grains of sand in this bowl, because they are so tiny! (There are mathematicians who have tried to calculate the number of grains of sand in a square inch. Their estimates range from about 9,800 grains of coarse sand in a square inch to about 600,000 grains of fine sand in a square inch. I guess even they got tired of counting, LOL. WOW, my mind is blown! ) Psalm 139:17–18 says God’s thoughts about us are more numerous than the grains of sand! That means God thinks about you more than all of these thousands of tiny little grains! What do you think God thinks about you? Allow your kids to respond.
God knows everything about you because He made you and He loves you. You’re special to Him.