Connect with your kids during a powerful meditation on hope and how God helps us wait with hope.
God is our hope, and this word for hope is a really cool word: tiqvah. This word means a rope or a cord. It also means an expectation, like you know that something is going to happen. That’s what hope is: you know it’s going to happen.
When Rahab was rescued from Jericho before it was destroyed, she put a red cord out her window to show God’s people where she was staying so they could save her and her family.
That’s the same word for hope - it’s like a cord. Rahab had to act in her hope. She didn’t just wait doing nothing to be rescued. She had to put the cord in her window.
Just like Rahab knew that God’s people would rescue her, we know that God will rescue us. Because He promised that, and He always keeps His promises.
Right now we are all waiting to celebrate Jesus’ birth. But we aren’t waiting doing nothing. We are reading about Jesus, we are talking to Him in prayer.
Verses:
For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.
Psalm 71:5 NIV
Joshua 2 - Rahab’s Story
Activity Ideas:
Act out the story of Rahab putting the red cord in her window.
Questions:
What do you think Rahab did while she was waiting to be rescued?
What can you do while you are waiting for God?
Resources:
Visit my website for lots more prayer resources for your family.
Visit Blue Letter Bible to learn more about that word “hope.”
