Bible Reading: John 1:9-13; Acts 2:36-39; Romans 10:13

Damon leaned back in his chair and started whistling.

“Done with your math already?” Mom asked.

“Yep. I’m the fastest fourth grader in this school!”

Mom laughed. “You’re the only fourth grader. I know it’s time for your break, but could you play with Letty for a little bit while I make lunch?”

Damon nodded and sat down on the living room floor. Letty set her coloring book aside and sat down next to him. Damon took some fence from Letty’s toy barn and made a fenced area. He had already built some block houses while playing with Letty that morning. He found a farmer and construction worker and put them inside the town’s walls.

Damon took the construction worker and said in a deep voice, “This is the best town I’ve ever made. We need more people for my town.”

Letty picked up the farmer and pushed the construction worker aside. “It’s not your town. It’s mine. And there’s not enough room for you here.”

Damon jumped his construction worker up on a wall. “What? I put the walls up and made the houses and I even put you here, Miss Farmer. What do you mean?”

Letty turned the farmer’s back to Damon’s construction worker and said, “I’m sorry, but you have to leave.”

Mom stood in the doorway and said, “This reminds me of what we read in the Bible this morning.”

Damon got up from the floor. “You mean the part about Jesus coming to His own people and they wouldn’t receive Him, even though He made them and the whole world?”

“Yes,” Mom answered. “They didn’t believe Jesus was who He said He was. But after Jesus died on the cross and rose again, His disciples convinced them that Jesus was both Lord over everything and the one sent to save them. When they realized they’d rejected the Son of God, some of them asked for forgiveness and trusted Jesus to save them.”

Letty’s little farmer drove her tractor through a fence. “Can you help me, Damon?” she pleaded. “It’s broken!”

As Damon put the fence back up, Mom said, “At least she knows who to call for help.”

–Laura Roesler

How About You?
Do you know that Jesus made you and the whole world? The Bible says that all things were made by God through Jesus. He has power over everything, yet Jesus became human and died for our sins so we could be saved. Have you trusted Him as your Lord and Savior? The Bible says that anyone who calls on the name of the Lord and receives Jesus as their Savior becomes a child of God. (To learn more, click the “Good News!” button in the right column of this page or go to www.keysforkids.org/goodnews.)

Today’s Key Verse:
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. (NKJV) (John 1:10)

Today’s Key Thought:
Trust Jesus as Lord and Savior