I teach the teens at our church on Wednesday Nights. I am very blessed to have a wonderful group of teens that really do want to serve Christ. Last night our Discovery Lesson was about God and how he is everything. He is the Creator, Redeemer, Savior, and Rock. He is something different to everyone at certain points in their life. I had 3 people give me who God is to them right now. One said judge, another said Creator, and the last teen said he is his defender. So today, I want to ask you, what is Christ to you at this very point in your life? If you have been ill, he is your healer, if you have been blinded by the principals of this world then he is your eyesight (spiritual), and so on.
I have found out through past experiences that my teens want their teacher to answer the question that they are asking the kids. This makes for great relationship building. So, I volunteered my answer. I said that right now in my life my kids are all very young, and I am building their "foundations" for learning, physical growth, and spiritual growth and that means quite a bit of temper tantrums, fit throwing, and crocodile tears to experience each day. Most of the time more than once in a day. I told my teens that right now, God is my Peace. He is the Peace in the middle of the chaos at my home! To some that may not sound very spiritual, but there are times throughout my day I need God's peace to come over me and help me control my beautiful children. Peace is defined as being, "a period maked by the cessation of open and hostile aggression between people and nations." Another definition of the Hebrew word for peace, is "well-being, and wholeness". Both of these describe what I need at my home during the course of a day. I need God to give me the physical strength (well being) to make it and the spiritual strength to teach my children God's word. Then, I need God's peace to make me "whole", and fill me up with him so that I don't get disappointed at my kids when they don't fill a needed spot in my life. He is the ONLY one or thing that can make us whole.
I encourage you to think about who God is to you and thank him for that. Then, I encourage you to figure out the opposite of your word for him (mine is chaos or anxiousness) and then look up a verse in the Bible that corresponds with how God gives you what you need. For example, My verse is "Be anxious for nothing, but anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made to God; and the Peace of God , which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts, and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6-7.
May you experience the Peace, comfort, Healing, I AM, Word, Creator, and Fortress today in your life.
In His Love,
Jamie
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