A Lion is in the Streets | Proverbs 26:13 Lion Craft
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In the beginning, God gave his people good Creation gifts. One of those gifts was the gift of labor. God gave Adam the task of naming the animals and caring for the garden.
We want our children to value and enjoy the labor God has given them to do. Sometimes that is easier said than done!
The Bible has a lot to say about God's good gift of work. It also has a lot to say about laziness.
Help your kids consider how they work for the Lord with this fun Proverbs 26:13 craft.
A Lion in the Streets | Proverbs 26:13
Read Proverbs 26:13 as a family before you begin your craft.
The book of Proverbs gives us archetypal people to learn about, and we get to see the outcome of their life choices.
For example, in Proverbs the habitually lazy person is referred to as the sluggard. (What an awful name!)
Some of the examples Proverbs gives of the sluggard are humorous. In fact, Scripture makes it easy for us, as parents, to discuss how the small, daily life choices of "the sluggard" result in poor character and undesirable life results.
Proverbs 26:13 gives us a humorous look at the excuse that "the sluggard" employs to avoid the work they don't want to do. In the ESV, Proverbs 26:13 says:
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!”
As you make your craft, discuss:
- Does it make sense to put off doing the work God gave us to do because there might be a lion in the streets?
- Brainstorm some excuses you might use to avoid God's good gift of work.
- Read Colossians 3:17 together. As followers of Jesus, how should we treat work?
Be sure to put your lion craft somewhere you will see it often!
