For Kids · 3 min with a grown-up
Jeremiah was a prophet who loved his people and kept telling them to come back to God. In this chapter, the people make a big promise — and then they break it.
Today's Story
Hard days had come to the city. The people were scared, and they wanted God to help them. So the king and all the people made a special promise to God.
For a long time, many families had servants who worked for them and were not free to leave. God had taught His people that this should not go on and on. So everyone promised the same thing: “We will set our servants free. We will let them go!”
And they did it! Every servant was set free to live their own life. God was pleased. It was a good and kind thing to do.
But a little while later, the people changed their minds. They went and took all those servants back again. They broke the very promise they had just made to God.
God was sad. He sent Jeremiah to say, “You made a promise to Me, and you broke it. When you say something to Me, you need to keep it.”
God always keeps every promise He makes. He wanted His people to be the kind of people who keep their promises too.
A Big Word
Memory Verse
Talk About It
- The people set their servants free, and that made God happy. When have you helped someone or been kind to them, even when you did not have to?
- It is easy to make a promise and hard to keep it. What is one promise that is hard for you to keep?
- God always keeps His promises to us. How does it feel to know that God will never break a promise to you?