Light of the World
This is a tangible activity for children to learn the spiritual importance of the light of God to guide their life. Help your children understand the difference between seeing something tangible like a table or chair and something less tangible. For example, the wind, a fragrance, love, joy, etc. This will help them understand spiritual light and darkness.
Before you start have one of the children snuff your advent candle
You will need one of the following for each person in the family:
One cup or toy to hold the darkness in
One light, either a flashlight or a candle (be careful)
Each member of the family holds their cup of darkness and their unlit light. Turn out all the lights in the house and walk around for a short time in the darkness; just long enough to see the problems with darkness and the need for the light. Then gather together and let mom or dad light each candle one by one. Or turn on your flash lights. Sing a song if you like.
Talk About:
1. Did you have any problems with the darkness? Did your cup of darkness help you not to stumble? In the Bible darkness represents our life without the light of Jesus. If we don't have Jesus, how can we stumble?
2. Did your light help? This represents Jesus in our life. If we have Jesus how will this help us to see with the eye's of our heart, what is really important?
3. Looking at the verses. Do you see the need of the people who walk in darkness to have the light of hope, the light of God's Son to come into a their dark world?
4. Do you see the problem of the darkness of sin in our world today? What is the answer to this problem?
"The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.
But the way of the wicked is like total darkness.
They have no idea what they are stumbling over."
Proverbs 4:18,19
The original concept and some of the material from this family activity came from
Christ in Christmas: A Family Celebration Copyright 1989 by Ligonier Ministries
The original concept and some of the material from this family activity came from
Christ in Christmas: A Family Celebration Copyright 1989 by Ligonier Ministries
