Loving God as a Family Lesson One

Loving God as a Family


We Worship a Perfect God





Read: Exodus 33:15-23; Psalm 99
Questions for discussion:
What did Moses see on the mountain?


How did Moses learn that God is perfect when they met on the mountain?
What is one reason we worship God?
David was worshipping God, because He is perfect. Can you think of any other ways that


God displays how perfect he is?
How does it make you feel to know that God is perfect?

As a family work to finish this sentence, “Being perfect is like…” Talk about how your answer is like or unlike God. Nothing we can come up with is quite right, because only God is perfect. God is the definition of perfection.

Key Thought: It is hard to imagine what perfection looks like, just like it is difficult to imagine what God looks like. Moses got to see a glimpse of God, and one day in heaven, we will get to see God’s face. Until then we can only imagine, and we can worship our perfect God.



Pray as a family, and thank God for being perfect. Give Him praise in your prayer time for how awesome He is.











Activities:





Preschool:


Have your child draw a star or a crown on a piece of paper. Cut it out and color it. Tape it somewhere that your child will see it everyday. Then, everyday when they see it,
help them remember that God, our King, is perfect.





Choose a worship song that your child loves. Make up actions to it and then sing the song with the actions as an act of worship to God. Share the song and actions with the rest of the family.



Lower Elementary:


Help your child make a construction paper crown that is fit for a King. Then, hang it in their
bedroom. Encourage them to use the crown as a daily reminder to thank God, our King, for being perfect.



Help your child bake a batch of cookies. After they have cooled, let the family help inspect all of the cookies to see if any of them are perfectly round. Thank God for always being perfect. Then, enjoy the cookies as a family.



Upper Elementary:


Write a song, poem, or paragraph worshipping God because he is perfect.



Stand opposite a family member. Have one person pose in different positions while the
person opposite tries to mimic the movements. Discuss how well you mimicked the poses. Just as you couldn't perfectly mimic each other, no one can mimic God because He is perfect. Because God is perfect we worship Him!



Gather as a family and pick out a couple of favorite worship songs to sing. Play them on a
CD or on a favorite instrument or just sing them without music. Discuss how God is worthy of our praise because He is perfect.



Teens:


Read over Psalms 99 again, this time think of how the author is specifically pointing out
ways that God has proven Himself to be perfect in the eyes of the author. Now you try
writing a song, poem or paragraph that praises God for the ways that He has proven His perfection to you specifically. Think about things you see, circumstances in your life and times when God has been revealed to you.



Fill in the blank in this sentence on a piece of paper, “If I had _________ right now, it would
perfect.” Where there any other ways you could have completed this sentence? If so,
write them down too. Now, next to this sentence, explain why you finished the sentence
the way that you did. Reflect on how your explanation of why you finished the sentence
the way you did might be applied to how God is perfect. Perhaps you finished your
sentence the way you did because it is something that you need, something that would
complete what you are doing right now, something that you or missing or just something
that would make your life better. All of these things can be said about our perfect God.