Object: Be familiar with 1 Samuel 16:1-12. If possible, have three or four older boys or youth help with this lesson.

Lesson: When God looks at a person, God is more concerned with what's on the inside than with what's on the outside.

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:7

The Bible tells us a story about a time when Israel needed a new king. God sent a man named Samuel to find the new ruler. Samuel was a good man who had helped God in many ways, and God told Samuel that he would point him in the right direction and would let him know when he had found the right person to be king. God told Samuel to go and find a man named Jesse. Jesse had many sons and one of them was God's choice to be the new king.

Jesse called his sons in one by one to meet Samuel. (If you have older boys or youth helping, have …