I am really pumped for our student ministry bible study tonight. (LOL) - we are having a party tonight with pizza, a cool game and some music to kick off the summer. School is out tomorrow and I am sure the students will be all jacked up tonight. Thankful for a few parents coming in to help me - I cant imagine what would happen with just me there.... I may be in the corner all taped up and M&M's stuck all over me. na.... just kidding - we have awesome students.
Anyways - I am trying to decide if I will have a small nugget as it is referred to for the students or just put things in motion and let them have some fun. I do want to leave them with something as one season comes to a close in their life and another opens.
I want to share Hebrews 11:24-26
24-28By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God's people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn't touch them.
Faith is moving forward with God regardless of what we see. Walk by faith as the Jeremy Camp song goes. Even with a life full of luxary and servants and everything handed to him, Moses chose to road less traveled. Often times harder in life but surely harder for Moses when he had everything a country could give him. We often times do the same thing when we switch jobs or move our families across country for a better paying job. Sometimes we move friends in order to jump ship and get with the better IN crowd or select cool group. A few months back we were in a series in the student ministry "To Save a Life" and we often spoke of reaching out to the lonely in our daily walk. Reaching that student sitting by themselves at lunch... speaking nicely to the lady behind the counter at the hardware store who looks grumpy as anything. We just dont know what their story is. I had a student tell me this week that they got upset with a table of students in her lunch room because they were making fun of another student who's family was on food stamps. Many of us are a few paychecks away from that place too and even if we dont have a palace or luxery items that the hollywood stars have - we also have to be thankful with what we do have and not focus on the things we dont. Those things can be taken away in a blink of an eye ... and when we use our money for earthly things...we often times use it to use people. Put your money and luxery things into Gods hands ... help those around you and invest in the kingdom of God - God will use your money far greater than you will.