Recently, for a bit of fun, we took our family to a locked room activity with an Egyptian theme called The Curse of the Pharaoh. You're put into a room and have one hour to escape by solving puzzles, but as you progressively solve each puzzle with the clock counting down, you don’t know which is the final puzzle, or when you will breakthrough to escape the room.

This past week Rosie and the team have held a holiday programme called Egypt. The kids learned that the problem facing the people of Israel at the time of Moses was that they were treated as slaves and needed to escape from the Pharaoh. They needed a breakthrough that would cause the Pharaoh to let them go.

In the bible God expected his people to obey him and follow all of his laws and commandments, so that they would succeed in his purpose. God ordered Samuel that he needed to appoint a king of Israel among Jesse’s children. The Lord said to Samuel in 1 Samuel 16:7,  “Do not consider how handsome or tall he is. I have not chosen him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outside of a person. But the Lord looks at what is in the heart.” ​