Devotions for Modern Kids

Do you ever doubt God exists? You can't see God, so God might not be there at all. But the story in the Bible says that God is with you each step along the way. Jesus, God the Father's Son, walked among us on earth as proof that God cares. Some think God created the world and left it alone to work on its own laws. But it takes a God to sustain the world and keep it going. The fact that the world still exists and "works" is proof that God loves us. I think God is big enough to handle our doubt. If God redeems every aspect of human experience, God redeems our doubts as well. Jesus experienced every aspect of being a human and did not sin. This means that Jesus surely had to experience doubt as well. It's not a sin to doubt God. God's big enough to handle it. In John 17, Jesus experiences agony in the Garden of Gethsemane before he is arrested to go to the cross. The Bible says that Jesus wanted the "cup" of his suffering to be taken away. Jesus ...

Do you ever get side-tracked in what you do? Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, but they got side-tracked wandering in the desert on the way to the Promised Land. They ended up building something called the Tabernacle that would remind them that God was always with them each step of the way. It was designed with lots of art and gold so that the Israelites would remember how great God was. Even when they were wandering around in the wilderness, God would be with them, and they would need to take time to contemplate God in their lives. Many, many years later, the Israelites had their homeland destroyed by a way. The Babylonians invaded and destroyed their country. They had to go far away into a strange land. They remembered that God was with them then just as God was with them in the wilderness. They did not have a Tabernacle here as it was destroyed by the Babylonians. They didn't even have a place to worship. Rebuilding the Temple was just a pipe-dream to them to think about....