Where do you hear God when it’s noisy?
Threatened by Queen Jezebel, the prophet Elijah runs into the desert, exhausted and sad: “I have had enough, LORD.” An angel brings him bread and water and lets him sleep. At God’s mountain, a wind, an earthquake and a fire pass by, but God is not in them. Then comes a still, small voice, and God tells Elijah he is not alone.
Threatened by Queen Jezebel, the prophet Elijah runs into the desert, exhausted and sad: “I have had enough, LORD.” An angel brings him bread and water and lets him sleep. At God’s mountain, a wind, an earthquake and a fire pass by, but God is not in them. Then comes a still, small voice, and God tells Elijah he is not alone.
Kids play Elijah, make 4 choices, and stop 3 times to look through different ways of knowing, including a cover-your-ears calm-down for noisy moments. In the Bible, Elijah asks God to take his life (1 Kings 19:4); this version keeps his words “I have had enough,” and the grown-ups notes explain what to do if a child ever says something similar.
Ages 5–11
Yes, very. The Bible doesn’t hide it, and God’s first answer was food and rest, not a lecture. That’s a good thing for kids to hear.
1 Kings 19. After his great victory on Mount Carmel (chapter 18), Elijah runs from Queen Jezebel’s death threat, sits under a broom tree and tells God he has had enough. An angel brings bread and water and lets him sleep, twice. He walks forty days to Mount Horeb. There God is not in the wind, the earthquake or the fire, but in “a still, small voice,” and gives him work to do and a helper, Elisha. Our story handles 19:4 gently; the grown-ups notes say how.