Did You Know?
Did you know that in some countries today a single flock of sheep may have up to 4,000 individual sheep? Talk about counting sheep!
Words to Treasure
But take this walking stick in your hand. You will be able to do signs with it.
Exodus 4:17
Jay ran the sandpaper down the walking stick he had just carved out of a tree branch. Great-Uncle Morgan was finishing his fifth stick of the morning because he sold them at craft fairs. “This,” Jay tested his stick, “is the greatest walking stick ever made.”
Great-Uncle Morgan examined Jay’s work. “Good stick, but can it turn into a snake?”
“What?”
Jay made a good stick, but it wasn’t in the league with the snake-morphing, plague-making, Red-Sea-splitting shepherd staffs of two brothers in the Bible. Moses and Aaron were shepherds before God sent them on a pharaoh-busting mission to save God’s people. Their tool of choice: a shepherd’s staff. God used everyday items to do some of the most amazing miracles the world has ever seen. It just doesn’t get bigger than causing the Red Sea to part so that the Israelites could cross through to safety, while deep-diving the pharaoh’s army that tried to follow.
Those simple shepherd staffs became a sign of God’s power to protect the Israelites and reminded people that Moses was God’s pick for leader. Aaron’s staff was later put in the Ark of the Covenant, God’s throne on earth. Simple wood stick or amazing tool of God? Kind of like you — simple kid or amazing person for God?
Did You Know?
Did you know that in some countries today a single flock of sheep may have up to 4,000 individual sheep? Talk about counting sheep!