Here is a great object lesson to talk about listening to God in a busy world. This can be done with the story of Samuel mistaking God's voice for Eli 3 times or keeping God first above all else.
Objects needed: duffel bag, 2 Cell phones, a towel and some popular objects that represent things kid do such as books for school, clothes for fashion, cds for music, video games, basketballs/footballs/softballs for sports.
Lesson:
(Begin with the bag on the ground and all the objects either laying behind you, out and about on stage or hidden behind something.)
You know we live in a busy world today and because we stay so busy it can be kind of hard to stop and listen to what God is trying to tell us. So lets pretend that this cell phone represents God (hold up 1 cell phone) and when it rings that is Him trying to tell us something. Now this phone is on loud so when it rings we should hear it (show a kid or two it is as loud as it goes). We are going to put the phone into the bag which represents our life because obviously we want God to be part of our life but that means we have to spend time with Him. (To really drive home to the point have a towel placed in the bag before hand and wrap the phone in towel as you place it in). But God isn't the only thing in our busy life right? Lets see what are some things you do everyday?
1. What about school? Yes for a big part of the year ya'll go to school for 8 hours a day so lets put some books into the bag to represent school.
2. Oh, and clothes! We all wear clothes of course but some people really love to have the coolest newest clothes so they are always watching what is popular to wear.
3. A lot of us like sports too right. So lets put in some basketballs, and footballs because maybe we are consumed with sports or our favorite sports team and that is all we do and think about constantly because we just love it so much.
4. Then we have music and video games because a lot of people listen to music and play video games.
5. Of course we probably can include some friends in here but it'd be kind of hard to fit a person so lets just pretend.
(by now the bag should be full and barely be able to close)
So I think that we have put just about everything we can into our life, its pretty full so lets close up this bag. (now pull out the other cell phone) So obviously there is a lot in our life but lets see how well we can hear that phone ring. (call the other phone it should be a very faint ring if at all).
We could barely hear that phone right and only when we got really still and quiet could we hear the ring. Now think of our lives and if we let all these things take importance in our lives how hard it will be for us to hear God too. Not that these things are bad, we need to go to school and sports are fun and help us stay healthy and video games are even fun but we can't let them become more important that God and drown Him out.
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