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| RESPOND: (5–10 minutes) Ask students to turn to the Closing Psalm at the bottom of their worksheet. Tell students that you will read it in unison, pausing after the word righteousness, and when you pause, they should call out items from their Top Ten list for which they are thanking God. When they are done naming those gifts, continue with the last half of the verse. Optional: Sing a song of praise together to close the session. INSIGHTS FROM THE SCRIPTURE: After being enslaved in Egypt and then led out into the wilderness by Moses, the Israelites are now complaining about their misfortunes. They aren’t happy with their life in the wilderness, and one of their biggest complaints is the food. There isn’t anything to eat but manna—a fairly tasteless substance that they combine with oil and bake into cakes. Their complaining is so frustrating to Moses that Moses in turn complains to God about his being responsible for this huge group of unhappy people. God agrees to do two things: to enlist 70 more leaders to help Moses, and to send some meat to the Israelites. The meat arrived in the form of quail—more quail than they knew what to do with. Each person gathered ten homers, which was about ten loads on a donkey—way more than they could eat or process for the future. The Biblical account says that at this point the people “with the craving” were struck with a plague and died. Continued... |
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