Celebrity

Do you ever sit with your kids helping with their schoolwork or Bible study and just have one of those moments where you just “get it”? On many occasions whether in teaching, working with Jake on his Bible lessons or even in BSF I have had one of those moments. It’s where you already know the truth or lesson being taught but it is said in a way that just hits you and really causes you to think. I had one of those on Monday night. I returned to BSF after having a 3 week vacation. I was scheduled to help in the Children’s Program. I really enjoy being in there because I really do come away with having learned something that I feel I might have missed having gone to my regular class. (Not to say that I don’t get great insight in my adult class.) It happens every time whether it is working in the preschool area or the senior level. Tonight we were discussing the story of Moses and his intimate relationship with God. It is the where Moses asks to see God’s glory. You truly see how close they are and how Moses’ relationship with God has evolved. The teacher was asking the kids if they have ever wanted to meet a celebrity or famous athlete. Had they ever wanted to sit down and talk with him and get to truly know him? She told the kids how they could read all they wanted and watch all the media coverage of that celebrity but they would never really know him. And more that the celebrity doesn’t know you so he doesn’t care to sit down and talk with you. Not that the celebrity is being mean, he just doesn’t know you. Then the kicker (for me)…God is a celebrity who does want to know you. He wants to sit and talk with you and for you to get to know Him! That hit me hard and yet it wasn’t a conviction. It was more of a gentle reminder of, “Remember Me? I really love you and want to spend time with you. I want to share all of me with you!”
There’s really not a celebrity that I care to sit with and get to know. I think I am past that and yet tonight really caused me to think about my relationship with God. I think at times I tend to act like a celebrity with God and say I don’t have time for you now when it should be the other way around and yet it’s not. He always has time for me. So, thank you God for placing me in the Children’s program. You had me right where you wanted me to be. And thank you to the teacher who helped me to see God through the eyes of a child.