Object: Box of chocolates with mixed fillings and Card stock printed with 1 Samuel 16 (reference only)

(Open the box of chocolate. Take one out, bite it, and announce its filling. Take out a second piece of chocolate, bite it, and announce its filling.) These pieces of chocolate are very good! From the outside, they very much alike, but when you bite into them, you find out that they are very different. Without the map that sometimes comes with the box, you have to break or bite the chocolate to know what’s inside.

Sometimes we judge people by how they look on the outside, but a story in the Bible lets us know that God looks at us differently. (Hold up the card stock with 1 Samuel 16 printed on it.)

In 1 Samuel, chapter 16, God told Samuel, his prophet, to anoint a new king for Israel. …