Dawn R. Deem Stephens

Is your Mama a Llama? This is one of my all time favorite books. As a teacher, I loved reading it to my students. The rhyming verse and the predictability of the next word as you turned the page made it a completly interactive experience. It was a great tool in teaching students to read. I also had the privledge of meeting Deborah Guarino in New York and she is as fun in person as she in her text.
But lets get into our Bible lesson with this story. The young Llama goes about questioning the other animals to see if their “mama” is a llama.
The boldness of this little guy is inspiring. I wonder as we go through our days meeting people if we bother to question who their heavenly father is. The animals identify their “mama” by the way she looks, what she eats, and the sounds she makes (”moo”).
Christ identified who he was by letting us know who his father is. In Colossians 1:15, Paul tells us that Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  Knowing that Christ is the Son of God is the foundation to the Christian faith but it goes beyond that.  When we accept Christ as our savior we become a child of God ourself. (1 John 3:2) – So, the natural lesson in this book is in genetics. We all inherit genes that make us look like our mamas and daddies. But don’t miss the opportunity that we also need to take on the image of Christ. We are now children of God. If we’ve received Christ as our savior then we have a heavenly father wants to reveal Himself to us. He wants us to be more and more like Him. If we are, then others will recognize it – and just as Lloyd the Llama could guess each “mama” by the traits it possessed, others will recognize that we are Christians by the things we say and do. So, the real question isn’t, “Who is your Mama?”- it’s:  “Who is your heavenly father? – And how can we tell?”

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