ooooorrr....Sustaining Sunday School! haha. It's Talk Like a Pirate Day!
So, that was technically yesterday. I'm a day late. We had a youth trip to another church out of town yesterday afternoon, and I didn't have time to finish my post after lunch. Here we go now.
For the past two or three weeks of Sunday School, I've made extra food because I assumed some of the boys might have two of something, but evvvvvery time I've had a lot of leftovers. I told Le Hubby today that there was no way I was bringing more than one batch of Cinnamon Rolls....annnnnd kids were fighting over the last piece. Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous. haha.
Anyway. I never got a picture in until:
Yum....the Hubs and I didn't even get to have one.
The lesson was titled 'Different from the Rest'. Last week, we talked about being created for a relationship and this week, our bible study focused on them seeing how that covenant relationship is different from others in their lives from Genesis 15:1-21.
Le Hubby even talked about Twilight. Haha. Our lesson brought up that Rob Pattinson was constantly attacked by crazed fans and gets a little overwhelmed by it, but that God initiates a covenant relationship with us despite what we've done not because of it. Our kids are constantly barraged with the idea that they have to be a certain way or do certain things to be accepted and sometimes even loved. But they don't. We went on to talk about how God takes on the responsibility for our covenant relationship and that he is continually faithful to this relationship with us. There are few things in life that we can fully put our trust into...but especially at this time in their lives, we realllly want our kids to understand that the Lord is faithful.
My favourite quotes from the lesson:
Abram believed God, and it was credited to Him as righteousness. Without fully understanding all the nuances and consequences of following and trusting God, he believed. God, in sealing His covenant with Abram, forever pledged His loving, redeeming relationship with His people.
Our relationship with God is completely based on His faithfulness. There is no amount of “good” that we can do to deserve it or fully hold up our end of the bargain. We must trust that He is sufficient to satisfy His own requirements. Freedom to follow God will never come in your life until you stop trying to deserve what you already have.
It was good....really good.
That's all I've got. : )
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