God is Eternal
One great, true thing about God that is very different from you and me is that God is Eternal. This means that He has no beginning, and He has no end. We each have a birthday - and we celebrate our beginning, when we were born. Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday - when He came to earth as a baby. But Jesus is very different from you and me. He is God. He has been alive forever, and He always will be alive. He came to earth in the body of a baby, and grew up just like you are growing up. But before that, He was already alive, because Jesus is God.
This ring in the picture has no beginning and no end. It helps us to think about God - He has no beginning and no end. Jesus is forever!
(Allow your child to handle a ring, and talk about how it goes on without a beginning or an end. Using your hands, stretch out your left while saying "Jesus goes back in time forever" and stretch out your right saying "Jesus goes on ahead in time forever." Jesus never ends!)
Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty.”
*You can read the fuller, companion version of this post here: http://elizabethtreger.blogspot.com/2014/11/christmas-countdown-dec-1.html
One great, true thing about God that is very different from you and me is that God is Eternal. This means that He has no beginning, and He has no end. We each have a birthday - and we celebrate our beginning, when we were born. Christmas is when we celebrate Jesus' birthday - when He came to earth as a baby. But Jesus is very different from you and me. He is God. He has been alive forever, and He always will be alive. He came to earth in the body of a baby, and grew up just like you are growing up. But before that, He was already alive, because Jesus is God.
This ring in the picture has no beginning and no end. It helps us to think about God - He has no beginning and no end. Jesus is forever!
(Allow your child to handle a ring, and talk about how it goes on without a beginning or an end. Using your hands, stretch out your left while saying "Jesus goes back in time forever" and stretch out your right saying "Jesus goes on ahead in time forever." Jesus never ends!)
Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty.”
*You can read the fuller, companion version of this post here: http://elizabethtreger.blogspot.com/2014/11/christmas-countdown-dec-1.html
