It was great to be back with all the AWESOME Connection Youth Ministry students last night at LifeQuest. We started the night with a little review of my sabbatical with a race to dig some facts out of my blog. Let's see how well you can do!
What are the animals that I crossed paths with?
How many states did I stay in?
About how many fish did I catch on the Norfork river?
What were some of the books that I read on my trip?
After this crazy whirlwind of wifi frenzy, we combined with the G-Force Children's Ministry for some worship. We sang "Your Grace is Enough", "I Lift My Eyes Up", "The Stand", and finished with "Jesus Paid It All".
After the worship we dug into the first week of the series "Ummmm...Can I try that again?" There are so many instances in Scripture that talk about God giving people a second chance. Last night we talked about Jonah and his deliberate disobedience to God. God did some pretty crazy things to get Jonah's attention. We talked about a couple specific things.
1. When Jonah was going through the storm on the boat he was asleep. It was the other people on the boat being affected by the storm that had to wake Jonah up from his sleep. Sometimes there are people in our lives who are "asleep" at life and because of their disobedience to God have caused all kinds of storms yet they don't even realize it. Is there anyone in your life who needs to be "awoken"?
2. Every day we are bombarded with decisions. There are certain decisions that will either draw us closer to God or further from him. Such as: Do we hit the snooze button in the morning or do we open up our Scriptures? Do we do our best in everything at work or school as if we are working for Christ himself or do we do what is easy? Do we sit with the group at lunch who is known for picking on people or telling bad jokes or do we sit with the lonely kid who looks like they are neglected at home? Do we honor and obey our parents or do we decide that we have enough wisdom to make it on our own? Do we take that time right before bed to talk with God or do we use that time to text our friends?
Luckily Jonah found himself in the middle of some vomit. This would be a turn off to most people but I guarantee vomit looks awful good when the choice is that or the grave.
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