![]() The first three Beatitudes didn’t really seem like blessings when we first started studying them. Whenever we see a bumblebee, we will remember what our attitude should be. That’s why we have been playing so many bee related games and making crafts about bees. Open in prayer, then say this is our seventh week studying the Beatitudes! We have learned so much in our time together! Remember, the Beatitudes tell us what our attitudes should be. Be sure to have the same number and type of objects in each bowl, so it is easy for you to know when they have removed everything and to tell the kids what they still have left to look for if they start to get frustrated. Or give the children each their own bowl and have them compete against everyone. The first team to remove all the objects except the cross wins. You can have the kids work in teams and run a relay, with children running to their team’s rice bowl, scooping up one object, and carrying it back on a spoon to their team. This represents that the way to have a pure heart is to have only Jesus as our focus. They must leave the rice and the cross in the original bowl. They must remove the objects using only the spoon or chopsticks and transfer them to another bowl. The children must sift through the rice using chopsticks or spoons in order to find all the objects, or “distractions” hidden within the rice. ![]() I personally would just use a small cross pendant and about ten marbles in each bowl of rice. Any object that is small enough to fit on a spoon or be picked up with chopsticks would work. You can also include jacks, marbles, small action figures, or beads. The basic idea is to have a bowl of dry rice or beans, with small objects mixed in. There are many versions of this game, based on the needs and abilities of your class. ![]() You may be doing good things for the kingdom of heaven, but is there any part of you that is serving God for selfish reasons? Or is your service, or any work you do, negatively affecting the quality and quantity of your relationship with your family? This week, do a heart check and ask God to purify you so you may see him clearly. If that’s the case, check your intentions. Or maybe you don’t have any “major sin” holding you back. Maybe you have some sin that you know is hindering you from living up to your fullest potential in Christ. It is to have one focus, one goal as you go about your life, and that goal is to please God. To be pure in heart is to be from contamination.
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