Birds Nest

Birds nest. How simple they seem. A bird manages to put it together with only his beak. Some pine straw, some dirt, some leaves, some moss... sounds easy enough. I had the kids try to create birds nest this week. I asked them if they could make a nest as well as a bird - they both seemed to think so. They quickly found out that it wasn't as easy as thought.

A "real" birds nest

Once their "nests" were built we went one step further. I held up the little birds nest I had found earlier this summer and asked... so if it rains what will happen to this birds nest, will it fall apart? Would yours fall apart? 

 

And then we let it rain. As you can see from the muddy mess, their nest did not fair so well. 

What an awesome opportunity to explain to them that God takes care of the birds, He has given them the instinct to build a nest, collect their food, and anticipate the changing seasons.

And just like the birds we can't "build" our own lives without Christ. Our foundation (our "nest" for our lesson today) has to be firm in Christ. We can make it look beautiful from the outside, put all the right "things" in it, but in the end, it all falls apart when the rain starts.

Mathew 10:29-32   
For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent.  As for you, even the hairs of your head have all been counted.  So do not be afraid; you are worth much more than many sparrows!  Those who declare publicly that they belong to me, I will do the same for them before my Father in heaven. But those who reject me publicly, I will reject them before my Father in Heaven.