Attributes of God | Get Organized | Sunday School Lessons

Attributes of God are something people look for often. Sometimes people want to know just how great He really is while others want to become more like Him. Me - I want to become more like Him.

Get Organized! Sunday School Lesson
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Known fact - I am horrible at getting organized. I get off to a good start, then before I know it, I have started something else and have left the organizing behind. Are you like that?

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It's true - one of the hardest things for people to do is to get organized. Of course, some people have that natural instinct (I wish you could buy natural instincts. Oh, well). Since buying the natural instinct to get organized is out of the question, we'll just have to look at the attributes of God to see just how getting organized is important to Him and how we can become more like Him.

Attributes of God Sunday School Lesson

 

Today we're going to learn about one of the attributes of God. Does anyone know what an attribute is or what they think it might be?

 

An attribute means a quality or characteristic someone has.

 

For example, if you say that someone has good attributes, you are saying someone has good qualities or characteristics about them.

 

One of God's attributes is he is organized. I bet your wondering how we know that God is organized.

Well, we can look at many things in the bible that tells us how He is organized. Take the books of the bible, for instance. Each book is perfect. Each book is written so that the words work together with other books of the bible.
 

How Jesus is Organized

 

One bible story that helps us understand God's attribute of organization is Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand. Do you know that story? If the kids do not know the story of Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand you can touch on it just a bit. You can find this bible story in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. To get all the details of the entire story, you'll need to read it in all four books.
 

In the book of Mark, verse 39 and 40 we read this:
 

39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
 

40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
 

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Why didn't Jesus just tell everyone to sit down? Why was it important for the those people to sit down in groups?
 

Because He is organized.
 

The people sitting down in groups of 100 and in groups of 50 allowed the disciples to distribute the food easily. It also allow the disciples to gather the left over food quickly. In every word of the bible and in every lesson of the bible we can pick up on amazing things God tries to teach us. Nothing in the bible is useless. Everything is important.
 

What does this one attribute of God tell us? We need to get organized.
 

If organization wasn't important, He would have left this part out of the bible. But, he didn't.
 

Imagine if you went to school and the teacher let all the kids in your classroom sit wherever they wanted, go to lunch whenever they wanted, and talk whenever they wanted. The teacher wouldn't get anything done during the day much less teach the class what they needed to know.
 

Being organized helps keep the day running smooth, it helps keep chaos down, it helps us to learn order and respect. Without being organized, life would be crazy.
 

How many of you keep your homework where it should be? Does mommy or daddy gather it up for you every morning or do you take care of it yourself? How about your room? Is it neat, tidy, and organized?
 

Organizing Our Christian Life

 

Did you know that we need to organize our Christian life too?
 

We should have a time everyday that we read our bible. Some kids may be too young to read the bible by themselves, so say, 'a time of day when mommy, daddy, or sissy, reads the bible to you'.
 

Remember, while bible story books are great, children need to be introduced to God's word early in life. They may not understand what they hear or read completely, but God will open up His word to them when the time is right. They need to keep reading just as we as Sunday School teachers need to read the verses aloud for the kids to hear.
 

Always use the King James Version of the bible. Just because a bible has be written so that kids can understand better, it doesn't mean you should use it. God wrote His words the way He wanted them to be written and to be read. We should NOT try to change it.
 

We should always put God first. Not just say, 'I put God first'. We need to actually do it!
 

As Sunday School teachers, we need to study the attributes of God, get organized, and become more Christ-like every day!
 

May God bless you on your journey of teaching Sunday School.