Pastor John,
On our daily lesson plan for school, I always leave a section titled “Bible”. I leave it blank unless the Lord gives me something in particular to talk about with the kids ahead of time. Sometimes, it stays blank. I love not feeling “obligated” to have something written down. Most of the time, though, at the end of our day, I can go back and fill in something that we discussed. It is always unexpected, and I usually never remember how we got there.
Today was so sweet. We wound up talking about how Jesus gives us pleasures in this life, whatever it is that you like, just so that we can understand what “pleasures forevermore” means–just to get the idea. We talked about loving peace and how this flesh doesn’t, but Jesus does. We talked about the waterfall and the little bird sitting peacefully by it. We talked about whether we wanted to be like the waterfall or the bird. If we don’t love peace, we’ll have that, forever. If we love peace, we’ll have that, forever.
Then we talked about if we do make it there, where there are “pleasures forevermore”, how we’ll see the people that we love who have gone on before us and made it there. I’m excited to hope to see my grandma again. I look forward to seeing Preacher Clark and Uncle Joe. It brings tears to my eyes to think of meeting King David. I have fellowship with him. That brought up the whole story of David, Bathsheba and Uriah. It was so good having the kids put themselves into the story. Would they have forgiven David? Would they have been happy Absalom was dead? After that, David spent the rest of his life teaching Solomon what he had learned. It was a wonderful lesson for all of us in the mercy and love of God. What sweet, sweet feelings from Jesus this morning! I love it when he does that. My mouth just waters.
Last night was wonderful, and Jesus gave me something unexpected again today to put in my “Bible” section. 🙂
Cris