Thursday - Check up from the neck up

Warning! If I could put a red siren on this WARNING, I may have done it!

Okay, you may not like this! It may taste as bad as bad medicine, but after giving it to the Truth and Training group in Awana I have to!

One of the questions asked to the T&Ters(3-6th grade) last night was
"Why do you do homework?" Answers were varied, but mainly because "I get graded on it" and "I want to get into a good college". So I asked "What if I graded you on your handbook, what would your grade be?" I called out the A-F grade list and many fell into a D, some fared better.

Then I asked "If I graded you on your Bible reading, what would your grade be?" One or two B's, some D's, most were F's.

Spurgeon said "I think I now see the Spirit of God grieving, when you are sitting down to read a novel and there is your Bible unread. Perhaps you take down a book on "witchcraft", and you forget that you have a more precious book of the Acts of Apostles, and in the story of your Lord and Master. You have no time for prayer, but the Spirit sees you very active about worldly things like sports or music, and having many hours to spare for relaxation and amusement. And then he is grieved because he sees that you love worldly things better than you love him." He goes on to say "Sin everywhere must be displeasing to the Spirit of holiness, but sin in his own people is grievous to him in the highest degree. He will not hate his people but he does hate their sins, and hates them all the more because they nestle in his children's bosoms." Tell me that isn't powerful!

In Ephesians 4 25-32 it says ..."and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption...


I know it is hard to make time for every single thing in your life. I have been there, am there and will always be, yet there is a part of me that yearns to know Jesus and to really know Him. The only way to know Him is to read about Him.

If you struggle even finding the time, use the time you have in the "library"(bathroom)to open up the Word. (A bible teacher told me this years ago)

If reading the Bible is foreign land to you and getting into the Word is hard, try Ephesians or John, both are for the brand new believers/readers. Once you get those, who would you like to know more about? There are so many great reads in just one book! Don't be afraid of it, make time for it.

We were born to worship that is why God created us. Lift your hands and say Praise you Jesus and thank him for your life.

Until next time!