God is Awesome!

I just finished up a week of VBS at my church. It was wonderful to see the Lord work. He provided us about 60 workers, and 80+ kids. 16 Children accepted Jesus Christ at VBS! Praise the Lord! I was especially excited to see one of the little girls in my class come to Christ. She came to VBS for the first time on Thursday and was saved that very afternoon! Our "Bible Point" for that day was "God is Awesome," and that is so true! To see Him work in the lives of these young people was incredible. To hear them each day cheering about who God is. Whatever our point for the day was, children would scream and cheer as they learned something about God. God is Real. God is With Us. God is Strong. God is Awesome. God is In Charge.

By the end of the week several of us were loosing our voices from shouting, but it was so wonderful to see the children excited about God. They didn't care if it looked silly, and for the sake of the children, neither did we. But it started me thinking. If we're willing to go crazy and look funny so that the kids have a good time and learn about God, why aren't we so willing to look out of place for Christ? Why aren't we willing to risk looking foolish for the Lord? Why not do what God commands to bring others to Him? If God is really as important to us as we claim, more important than our reputation or pride, wouldn't we be willing to accept mockery for the chance to serve Him or the chance to see another person come to Him?

With all that's been going on, I haven't had a chance to sit down and write a "proper" post, and with another church's VBS coming up this next week I doubt I'll find the time then, but I wanted to take a few minutes to share these few thoughts.

God Bless!