Behold the Lamb (Day 2)
picture source Yesterday, we read the story about how God created all things. The Jesus Storybook Bible reminds us that God loves all people and desires a relationship with them- that we are God's children. Today, we read the next story in the book entitled "The Terrible Lie." The kids learned that the "Terrible Lie" was when the snake told Adam and Eve that they couldn't trust God to be good to them. The first man and the first woman chose to believe the snake instead of God and disobeyed God's "one rule." "And terrible pain came into God's heart. His children hadn't just broken the one rule; they had broken God's heart. They had broken their wonderful relationship with Him. And now He (God) knew that everything else would break. God's creation would start to unravel, and come undone, and go wrong. From now on everything would die- even though it was supposed to last forever (JSB, pg 33)." The