Children's Addresses - Planet Earth Sunday: How Does God Find You?

(This address is designed to accompany visuals on a screen or a computer screen.)

Do you know how God finds you when you pray to God?  Or when you are in trouble and call out to God?

What is your name?  Lily?  Finn?  How does God find you?

There are millions and millions of people all over the world.  And millions of them are calling on God to help them.  How does God find little you, Lily?  Or Finn?

And the world is so big.  Look at the picture on the screen.  Planet Earth is our home in the world.  Can you see it?  It is just a dot among all the stars in the sky.  Just a dot!

So when You call God, God first of all has to find the sun, then planet Earth that spins around the sun, then the country where you live on Earth, then your town, then your street and THEN little you! Wow!!!

Now there is something you can do on a computer nowadays—called Google Earth.  You type in your country, your town and eventually your street.  And what happens is that a camera way up in the sky zooms in to our street.  It gives a picture of your street.  Look.  I can zoom in to your street!!!!  Look at your street, Lily!

So God could have a camera that God uses to zero in on your house.  But the camera would not hear your words, your prayer.  Would it?

No! God has an even better way of zooming in to your head when you pray or call out to God. Do you know what it is?  Your Baptism name!

When you were baptised God put a mark on you with a cross.  Like this!  And God gave you a name, your Jesus name.  What’s your Jesus name all about? It really means, Lily you belong to me!  Finn you belong to me.  You are mine.  You have my mark on you, like a chip inside you.

So when you pray or call out to me, a signal reaches me from you. I know who you are.  I know where you are on the planet!!!  Lily wants me.  Finn wants me.  And no matter where I am in this huge world, I know just where you are.  And I can find you.

The world may be big and children may seem little.  But you are not little to me. Jesus loves you and you were baptised with a Jesus’ name.  So no matter where you are, you are important to me.  And I WILL find you.

Prayer: Thank you God for making Earth my home and finding me wherever I am on my planet home.