Each day at our school, we have an assembly, which the teachers take turns running. These half-hour or so meetings involve a kids talk, worship songs, prayer and some announcements from time to time. At the moment, the theme of our talks is "Favourite Bible Characters". Let it be said, I loathe having to run an assembly... Put me in front of up to 30 children and I'm fine... 100? Not so much. I never have the right words to say, especially when there are so many adults, fellow teachers who I admire and respect and I always end up looking retarded in front of them...
Anyway, yesterday I was the teacher running the assembly and I chose to speak about Abigail (1 Samuel 25). Now, to make a long story short, Abigail was a woman of integrity, who did what ws asked of her because she knew it was right. She ticked off her husband by providing aid to some of King David's soldiers, knowing that that was what god was asking of her. She was under no obligations to provide, but she chose the righteous path...
Today, the lovely Esther was in charge of assembly (by the way, that woman was born for kid's ministry!!). She told us all about the life of Peter and the ways in which she has learned from him. You know what?! Peter was a real douche sometimes. He stuffed up over and over again, yet he had enough faith to initially step of a boat ONTO water and walk towards Jesus. True, he didn't make it very far, but he 'stepped out in faith' so to speak. I wish I could have faith like that.
We are told that our faith can move mountains. And yet, we are so unbelievably scared of what we could accomplish with god's help, so we rely on ourselves.
There have been many things happening in the past few weeks, and at times I've felt like I've been left as a shattered, broken and useless shell. Why in the world am I trying to do this on my own?! In Bangladesh of all places?! I think we get ourselves into a comfortable little nook and we forget what God can do if we only say 'YES!'.
The last time I said yes, I ended up on a plane, zooming away from everything I'd ever known. But you know what? I haven't said 'yes' to anything since then and I've been beating myself up over the fact that I can't do this on my own. What a retard! We were not designed to do this on our own. Even in God's perfect world, the Garden of Eden, God was still there and he desired a real relationship. How could I ever think that he would want anything less now?!
Where are you at? Are you trying to make it on your own?
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Monday, February 8, 2010
"I get a kick out of you..."
Each day at our school, we have an assembly, which the teachers take turns running. These half-hour or so meetings involve a kids talk, worship songs, prayer and some announcements from time to time. At the moment, the theme of our talks is "Favourite Bible Characters". Let it be said, I loathe having to run an assembly... Put me in front of up to 30 children and I'm fine... 100? Not so much. I never have the right words to say, especially when there are so many adults, fellow teachers who I admire and respect and I always end up looking retarded in front of them...
Anyway, yesterday I was the teacher running the assembly and I chose to speak about Abigail (1 Samuel 25). Now, to make a long story short, Abigail was a woman of integrity, who did what ws asked of her because she knew it was right. She ticked off her husband by providing aid to some of King David's soldiers, knowing that that was what god was asking of her. She was under no obligations to provide, but she chose the righteous path...
Today, the lovely Esther was in charge of assembly (by the way, that woman was born for kid's ministry!!). She told us all about the life of Peter and the ways in which she has learned from him. You know what?! Peter was a real douche sometimes. He stuffed up over and over again, yet he had enough faith to initially step of a boat ONTO water and walk towards Jesus. True, he didn't make it very far, but he 'stepped out in faith' so to speak. I wish I could have faith like that.
We are told that our faith can move mountains. And yet, we are so unbelievably scared of what we could accomplish with god's help, so we rely on ourselves.
There have been many things happening in the past few weeks, and at times I've felt like I've been left as a shattered, broken and useless shell. Why in the world am I trying to do this on my own?! In Bangladesh of all places?! I think we get ourselves into a comfortable little nook and we forget what God can do if we only say 'YES!'.
The last time I said yes, I ended up on a plane, zooming away from everything I'd ever known. But you know what? I haven't said 'yes' to anything since then and I've been beating myself up over the fact that I can't do this on my own. What a retard! We were not designed to do this on our own. Even in God's perfect world, the Garden of Eden, God was still there and he desired a real relationship. How could I ever think that he would want anything less now?!
Where are you at? Are you trying to make it on your own?
Anyway, yesterday I was the teacher running the assembly and I chose to speak about Abigail (1 Samuel 25). Now, to make a long story short, Abigail was a woman of integrity, who did what ws asked of her because she knew it was right. She ticked off her husband by providing aid to some of King David's soldiers, knowing that that was what god was asking of her. She was under no obligations to provide, but she chose the righteous path...
Today, the lovely Esther was in charge of assembly (by the way, that woman was born for kid's ministry!!). She told us all about the life of Peter and the ways in which she has learned from him. You know what?! Peter was a real douche sometimes. He stuffed up over and over again, yet he had enough faith to initially step of a boat ONTO water and walk towards Jesus. True, he didn't make it very far, but he 'stepped out in faith' so to speak. I wish I could have faith like that.
We are told that our faith can move mountains. And yet, we are so unbelievably scared of what we could accomplish with god's help, so we rely on ourselves.
There have been many things happening in the past few weeks, and at times I've felt like I've been left as a shattered, broken and useless shell. Why in the world am I trying to do this on my own?! In Bangladesh of all places?! I think we get ourselves into a comfortable little nook and we forget what God can do if we only say 'YES!'.
The last time I said yes, I ended up on a plane, zooming away from everything I'd ever known. But you know what? I haven't said 'yes' to anything since then and I've been beating myself up over the fact that I can't do this on my own. What a retard! We were not designed to do this on our own. Even in God's perfect world, the Garden of Eden, God was still there and he desired a real relationship. How could I ever think that he would want anything less now?!
Where are you at? Are you trying to make it on your own?
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