Psalm 4
This is a great bedtime psalm! After the trouble of the day, we can sleep in peace because “You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” Consider adding this to your prayers before sleeping.
Job 4.1-21
For younger children read at least Psalm 4.8 and repeat it so that it might be written on the heart. You might also remind them that, like Eliphaz, there will be plenty of people that talk and offer their opinions or advice that are not worth listening to, but “you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” We can always listen to what the LORD says.
For older children you could read and discuss this note on verse 17 – Eliphaz makes the point that there are no human beings who can be righteous on their own before God. Eliphaz’s own reaction of terror in the presence of the Lord (or an angel) illustrates this point. But this does not really help Job or answer the more serious question: how can God justify a sinful person (9.2).” The Lutheran Study Bible What is the answer to that more serious question?
John 2.1-12
For younger children read at least John 2.11 and repeat it so that it might be written on the heart. You might also ask what wonderful thing does Jesus do with wine every Sunday morning at Church?
For older children you could discuss this – “Jesus, through whom all things were made (John 1.3), performs His first miracle (“sign”) at a wedding at Cana in Galilee, manifesting His glory by turning water into wine. Today, take your concerns to Jesus in prayer. By His life, and at the hour of His death, Christ revealed His great mercy toward us, assuring us that no need escapes His care. – O Lord Jesus, give me confidence as I seek You in my hour of need. Amen. ” The Lutheran Study Bible
Write it on the heart verses – Psalm 4.8 and John 2.11
Small Catechism for the week: Table of Duties – To Widows – The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives. – 1 Timothy 5.5-6
Small Catechism question for the day: What danger is there in refusing contentment in Christ? Proverbs 14.30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.