The Wordless Book

Yesterday we attended Kadumah Baptist Church where Darrell preached and I taught junior church.  I was really glad the pastor's wife, who usually teaches, was with me.  She took care of everything except the lesson itself.

As soon as the pastor asked me to teach, I began thinking about the Wordless Book--but I don't have a copy of it with me.  I used to have a pocket-size version, but that was long ago.  However, with that book, it's easy to improvise, especially when the Lord is in control!

Martha's sister makes jewelry and Martha brought some to work for me to look at.  As soon as I saw one necklace, I mentioned that it was almost like the Wordless Book.  Martha didn't know what I was talking about but liked it when I explained.  I told her to tell her sister to make one the way I want it and I will buy it.  In the meantime, I borrowed the one that was almost right: black, red, yellow, green, but no white.  Since the book is actually wordless--only colors--the beads would work quite nicely.

When I got in the classroom, I noticed one girl among the 30+ kids who had all the right colors in her hair clips except black, but there was black trim on her dress.  She came up front to help me illustrate the colors, and the kids seemed to get a charge out of the idea that her hair clips and dress were telling a story.  I also had a picture of our house back home taken last year with all the snow piled up so they could see how white snow is.

There's a song that goes along with the Wordless Book: 

Black:      My heart was dark with sin until the Saviour came in;
Red:        His precious blood, I know,
White:     has washed me white as snow;
Yellow:    and in God's Word I'm told I'll walk the streets of gold;
Green:     to grow in Christ each day I read my Bible and pray.

Of course, I used Scripture, too, since my ideas are not important; God's Word is what counts:  Romans 3:23; Isaiah 64:6; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7; I John 1:7; Isaiah 1:18; Psalm 51:7; Revelation 21:21; and II Peter 3:18.

It was a good day, especially to see how the Lord took care of my visual aid for me.  He is good!