The Jesse Tree Family Devotional
A 25 day ADVENT-ure through the Bible
Have you ever seen a family tree? Maybe you’ve seen one on the wall of a big historic house or castle? Or do you have a family member who loves history and has mapped out all of your family going back through the years? This devotional is based on the family tree of a man in the Bible called Jesse - hence The Jesse Tree - and is inspired by some verses in Isaiah 11.
We hope you enjoy learning about some key figures and important stories in the family of Jesse and his most famous descendant - Jesus!
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Family Devotional
Below you’ll see what we’re reading today as part of The Jesse Tree Family Devotional alongside some some questions to discuss and then a suggestion of how to respond and pray together as a family about what you’ve learnt. To go forward or back a day in the reading plan just click on the buttons.
Day 12
Fiery Serpents!
The journey from Egypt to the land which God had promised was anything but straightforward. And even though God demonstrated His care for the Israelites by miraculously providing manna for them to eat in the wilderness every day - still they grumbled, thought they had better ideas than God, and disobeyed Him. The reading today is the story of one such incident.
Read Numbers 21:4-9
Chat
- In verse 5 the Israelites complain about God to Moses, what do they say?
- What was the consequence of their complaints against God?
- When the Israelites asked God to take away the serpents, what did God do?
Pray
Father God, help us to follow Your will without grumbling or complaining. We thank You that You are merciful and kind, and You provide a way out for us even when we say or do the wrong things - just like that snake on the pole in the wilderness. Amen.
Numbers 21:4-9
4They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;5they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"6Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.7The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.8The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."9So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.
Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)
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