No Hair Elisha

Just did a simple family devotional with the kids based on 2 Kings 2:33 - 34 where Elisha got taunted by a group of youths.  And a bear came out and mauled 42 of them to death.

We talked about 2 things - one about respecting leaders (including parents, teachers, elders) God put in our lives, another about seemingly "unfair" things in life, or "bad" things that God allowed to happen in our lives.

Edrik was able to give the example of Paul being jailed twice and God only rescued him the first time.  And then I asked why that might be the case.  He couldn't figure it out, and I explained that sometimes God allowed "bad" things to happen first, before something good results.  And in Paul's case, it resulted in the whole palace hearing about the gospel.

We started the whole devo with a riddle about a body part - our hair, of which Elisha had none, and that was the reason why the youths taunted him in the first place.