For Kids · 3 min with a grown-up
God keeps teaching His people His good ways — especially about being honest and caring for those who have the least.
Today's Story
God's rules went on, and many of them were about being honest and caring for others.
If you borrowed something and it got broken, you made it right. If you found something that wasn't yours, you returned it. God's people were to be honest — even when no one was watching.
And then God said something tender: “Don't mistreat anyone who is alone or in need — not the stranger far from home, not the child without a father, not the one with no one to help her. If they cry out to Me, I will hear them, because I care.”
God was teaching His people to have soft hearts toward the people the world often forgets. God notices the lonely and the hurting — and He wants His people to notice them too.
A Big Word
Memory Verse
Talk About It
- God's rules said to be honest even when no one's watching. Why does honesty matter even when nobody would find out?
- God said He hears the lonely and hurting when they cry out. How does it feel to know God always hears?
- Who is someone “easy to forget” that you could notice and be kind to this week?