 Glow
in the dark creatures are many in the natural world. There are undersea
fish that glow. There are mushrooms that glow, there are flowers and rocks
that glow in the dark.  The
firefly or lightning but has an intermittent flasher. Think about the
imagination of God in creating insects with such signals! |
 The
lightning bug has his own little flashlight.
Some call this a firefly but it is not a fly at all. It is a beetle. It
is a small, luminescent, carnivorous beetle of the family Lampyridae.
|
  In
the dark it flashes signals. A jar full of them make an impressive
collection of lights. The males often live only long enough to mate. Many
of them never eat. They do not live long in a jar.
The insect controls the emission of light by regulating the amount of air supplied to the cells. The female chooses the males based on their flash pattern. Flashing is not only to find a mate, it's also used as a mechanism of warning to advise predators of the fireflies bitter taste. Unfortunately, some frogs like to eat them. |
| For those who desire to know how this works, here is a
scientific explanation for you science geniuses.
|
| The female does not fly. She looks like a worm with wing pieces and legs. |
| The larvae, which hatch from eggs laid on or in wet soil, feed on snails and earthworms, injecting their prey with a paralyzing fluid. Pupation (see insect ) occurs after one or two years. Both larvae and wingless females are called glowworms. Asian glowworms are considered beneficial controllers of crop-damaging snails and slugs. There are other luminescent insects, including members of other beetle families; the most spectacular are found in the click beetle family. Fireflies are classified in the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Coleoptera, family Lampyridae. |
| So gardeners love this lightning bug or firefly because it eats up slugs which destroy gardens. |
 Those
who read the Bible carefully with delight to know God's will for their
lives will glow in the darkest times of trial. |
 Every
morning God's friends start they day by talking to Him in prayer. They ask
Him to show them the work they should do. They invite Him to help in their
big and little decisions. They ask Him for help to see Satan's tricks and
avoid them. They read from the Bible stories of faith. The more they read,
the more they love God. Every evening God's friends again talk to Him.
They love to read the Bible. All day long they are talking to Him as they
work and play.
MUSIC: Study to show thyself approved unto God. A workman that needeth not to be ashamed. Rightly dividing the Word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 |
| Soon there will be more trouble over all the world than
there is now. It is important for everyone to seek to know God. We have no
time to delay. Study and learn how to handle the Word. Compare verse with
verses in other places of the Bible. Study carefully, so you will know a
good answer for what you believe.
You have to put fuel in the airplane or it won't run. You have to put gas or diesel in the car or it won't run. The light bulb needs electricity or it will not give off light. The oil lamp must have oil for it to burn. Jesus said that when we study the Bible it is like putting oil in our lamps. It is like putting fuel in the car, airplane, or lawnmower. Without the fuel the machine will miss and sputter and stop. We need the Holy Spirit oil to help us to obey. Without it we will not be ready to meet Jesus. WE will become discouraged and stop. We will miss out on heaven. |
 Spirits
of demons will pretend to have faith in the Bible. They will pretend to
respect the institutions of the church. We must watch for the decoys of
Satan. When a hunter is trying to kill a duck, he floats a pretend duck on
the water. A duck flying overhead sees this floating duck. He thinks it is
a real duck so he wants to join it. He does not know it is a trick. He
does not know how dangerous it is.
We must study the Bible every day. We need to make sure we understand what is the truth. We do not want to be tricked. |
|
Flubber |
|
Fun activity: Glow in the Dark Flubber It bounces. Christians bounce back when people say mean things. Glows: Christians glow in the dark with God's joy and peace during hard times. It is fun: Christians are fun people to know. They are full of joy. |
| 2 C white Elmer's glue
1 1/2 cup warm water few drops food coloring or 1-3 Tablespoons glow in the dark paint Mix all above ingredients in warm enough water to help it dissolve. Set this aside and keep it ready to receive the next pan of mixture. This is called mix A |
| Mix B
1 1/3 C warm water 3 teaspoons of borax Mix together till dissolved then pour into pan A. It is important that this goes into A and not visa versa. Water is to be warm not boiling hot. It will become stringy then glob together. Pour off excess liquid and work the flubber. In a plastic carton this can last 2-3 weeks. Kids love to help mix this. Janitors hat you if you mix and then pour excess liquid down the drain. They fear the glue will clog drains. Important to tell the kids to keep in bag or plastic carton when not playing with it. Also dirty hands will make a mess of flubber. Glow in the dark paint is toxic. It is not to eat. If children are very small, use only food coloring. |
There
are about 1,900 species that inhabit tropical and temperate regions. The common glowworm is a member of this family.
There are people like my husband who have a hobby of studying and naming
the different beetles carefully. My husband often keys out insects for
different universities.
Jesus
was sitting on a hillside watching a wedding festival. He decide to tell
the story about them to make an important point. You can read the story in
Mathew 25.
The
wise bridesmaids took flasks of oil. They stored up treasures of Bible
stories. When they were asked to wake up and go out to meet the bridegroom
which represented Jesus, they were prepared. Mathew 25:4