For Kids · 3 min with a grown-up
In this chapter God gives Jeremiah short messages for a whole list of different countries all around.
Today's Story
One after another, God gave Jeremiah messages for the countries near his own. There was Ammon and Edom. There was the city of Damascus. There were the tent-dwellers of Kedar who lived out in the desert, and a faraway land called Elam.
Each place was different. Some were close. Some were very far away. Some were big, some were small. But God had something to say to every single one.
Do you know what that tells us? God is not only watching His own people. He sees EVERY country in the whole wide world. He knows the people in the deserts and the people in the cities and the people across the far-off seas. Not one of them is too small or too far for God to notice.
Some of His messages were gentle warnings, like a parent saying, “Be careful.” And again and again, God slipped in a promise of kindness: “One day I will make things good for them again.”
The whole world — every land, every person — is held in God's great big hands.
A Big Word
Talk About It
- Can you name a country far, far away from where you live? God sees and cares about the people there too. Isn't that amazing?
- God noticed even the small desert tents of Kedar. How does it feel to know God never thinks YOU are too small to notice?
- God wants kindness for people everywhere. Who is someone far away — maybe in another country — that we could pray for right now?