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Psalms 43 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Send Out Your Light and Your Truth

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolGod's Light Leads Me

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenLead Me

LIGHT → picture 4HILL → picture 3TENT → picture 1ALTAR → picture 2

Grade 1Light and Truth

Send out your light. → picture 5Let it lead me. → picture 1Bring me to your holy hill. → picture 4God is my great joy. → picture 2Hope in God! → picture 3

Order:

1. Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy2. Let them bring me to your holy hill3. Then I will go to the altar of God4. Why are you disturbed within me

Grade 2Lead Me to You

  1. How did the writer feel? Sad (circle)
  2. What did he ask God to send out? His light and his truth
  3. Where did he want to go? God's house (circle)
  4. What was God to him? His great joy (circle)
  5. What three names did he call God? My Savior, my helper, and my God
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Grade 3God, My Exceeding Joy

  1. What does the writer call God in verse 2? The God of my strength
  2. Where should God's light and truth bring him? To God's holy hill
  3. What does he call God at the altar? My exceeding joy
  4. On what will he praise God? The harp
  5. What does he tell his soul to do? Hope in God
1: Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy2: Let them bring me to your holy hill3: Then I will go to the altar of God4: Why are you disturbed within me
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Grade 4Lead Me to Your Holy Hill

  1. What does Psalm 43 share with Psalm 42? The same refrain
  2. What two things does the writer ask God to send out to lead him? His light and his truth
  3. What does exceeding mean? More than anything else
  4. In the New Testament, what does Jesus call himself in John 14:6? The way, the truth, and the life

Word bank: 1. God; 2. strength; 3. light; 4. holy; 5. altar

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5My Savior, My Helper, and My God

  1. What does vindicate mean? To show someone is in the right
  2. How are light and truth pictured? Like two guides walking him back to worship
  3. In the New Testament, what two things does Jesus say about himself? I am the light of the world and I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 8:12, 14:6)
  4. What three names does the writer give God at the end? My Savior, my helper, and my God
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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