Object: a pair of binoculars.

Boys and girls, I brought a pair of binoculars to church with me today. How many of you have ever looked through binoculars before? (Let them answer.) What can binoculars do for us? (Talk about it.) That's right. Binoculars make little things look like big things. Sometimes when you look through binoculars you can see things you could not see without them.

Sometimes we want to see things that we can't see, and even binoculars don't help. One of the things we'd like to be able to see is how God works, or where God is, or what God looks like. Some people would probably give a lot of money to be able to see …