Day 5
My children are very familiar with the story of Moses because we did a Passover dinner the Wednesday before Easter. I found a Seder script for 2-3 year olds with songs and simple stories to explain each part of the Passover meal. We even dressed up. We had everything but the shank bone.
If you’re curious as to what we did here is a quick family video I made to document it.
A couple days before our Passover meal we watched “Prince of Egypt” which I mentioned in a previous post. It helped the kids remember the story of Moses and bridge the gap between Jacob and his sons moving to Egypt and then becoming slaves to Pharaoh. You can watch "Prince of Egypt" on Hulu.
Then I told them about manna in the wilderness, Moses hitting the rock for water and the poisonous serpent story. We acknowledged that even though Jehovah blessed the Israelites so much they still didn’t fully trust him. When He wanted to bring the whole nation into His presence and raise them up to a higher place they were too afraid and told Moses to continue to be their messenger. God was sad and because of their idolatry and disobedience He cursed them to wander for 40 years in the wilderness. I guess he needed a new generation to work with that wasn’t so steeped in Egyptian traditions.
Day 6
The next day we talked about Joshua and the battle of Jericho.
Here are the stories we read from our storybook bibles. My daughter saw me snapping a picture after we read them and wanted to be featured as well. It was too funny not to keep.
This is a great story of obedience when God‘s commandments contradict logic. Why would walking around the city be a better plan than just attacking it? I can relate to struggling to defend God’s ways when the world has evidence that another way is better. But I guess that is what faith is all about. Let go of the arm of the flesh and rely wholly upon Him who is mighty to save. God sees the whole picture while we only see a sliver. Veggie Tales has a great video about this story that my kids enjoy.
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