The following is this week’s Sunday School lesson for my four-year olds at Church… I wanted to share it with you guys because it has so blessed my heart to know that God has a purpose for every creature he made… yep, even and ant!

 

 

Genesis 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 

Today we are gonna talk about insects … yea, BUGS!

 

Did you guys know that God created every creepy crawly thing and gave them a purpose? He sure did! From fleas to bumble bees…. They all have a job to do.  There are a few that I would love to talk about for a minute …so, let’s sit down and listen to what God has to say about YOUR favorite BUG!

 

BEES…

 

And after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion…

 

Bees made honey for Sampson to eat.  Now Sampson was a strong guy who fought armies in the name of the Lord…so we know he would need A LOT of energy.  Bees produce honey and are very important to any garden, especially the small gardens where bees are most likely doing a majority of the work. :) they carry nectar from one flower to the next so that they can grow and grow…without bees we wouldn’t have either…can you just imagine that??

 

Frogs…

 

And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

 

The Pharoah in Egypt was keeping God’s children {the Israelites} captive as slaves… the Lord had told him that if he didn’t let them go he would send a plague of frogs…and he did…they covered the land completely…that is what a plague is… there wasn’t one inch of anywhere that DIDN’T have a frog on it…so Pharoah told the Lord “yes! I WILL let your people go… just remove the frogs from here”  The Lord did and the ones he left behind stayed in the river. Maybe THAT  is why little frogs live on lily pads… such little creatures were used to change the mind of KING

 

Lady Bugs…

 

To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven..

 

Yes, even lady bugs have a purpose…they eat the little mites that kill plants..and guess what…

They smell with their feet… isn’t that odd…and they eat those other little bugs that are determined to kill all the plants that our food come from in a garden… they are the gardner’s little helper’s…isn’t that and you know if God has a plan for a lady bug then  he for a fact  has one for YOU!

 

And my personal favorite, Butterflies…

 

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away behold all things are become new.

 

Butterflies are the most active during the day…a lot like us… They also help spread the pollen from one flower to another so that we can have all the pretty blooms that we see everyday on all different kinds of plants.  They remind us of God’s beauty and grace…do you guys know how a butterfly comes to be?  Well they start off as a caterpillar… crawling and not so pretty…but when it’s their time, they turn in to a NEW  creature… a beautiful butterfly.  When we learn about Jesus and accept Him as our Savior, we too become new creatures and all the old ugliness of sin gets to be beautifully forgiven by His grace…and we can fly!

 

 

There are other creepies mentioned in the Bible like…ants and beetles and spiders…they all have a purpose and sometimes it is just to learn from the way they work… an ant carries and prepares all its’ own food…they are very resourceful and hard working… locusts don’t have anyone to tell them what to do and how to do it, but they all work together and get the job done and spiders well, they catch all those flies and ya know what?  the bible says that they are even in palaces…

 

 

Ants…

 

The ants are a people not strong yet they prepare their meat in the summer.

 

Locusts…

 

The locusts have no king yet go they forth all of them by bands

 

The spider…

 

The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in the kings palaces

 

MEMORY VERSE…

To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven..

 

Remember we ALL have purpose!!! And we as human beings are sooo very special to him and ya know what else… all those little creatures are his creation too and just think, if he cares about even the smallest creepy crawly then he DEFINITLEY cares about you!