Anchor verse: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” [Joshua 1:9]
Day 2
I once heard a story about a woman
[a mother] who was frustrated with chores that weren’t being done in the home.
She was yelling at her kids, maybe even having the equivalent of an adult
temper tantrum. I’ll let you decide what she might have been saying and if she
was stomping feet or slinging things around and/or even crying... Then
suddenly, there was a knock on the door and to her surprise, when she opened
it, she found her preacher waiting. She
immediately changed her tone and switched from accusing to inviting. Angry to
pleasant. Hot to cool.
So many times in our life we
think that we can’t control the way that we feel or what we do. Yet, if someone
that you respected or wanted to impress appeared in the same moment, we would
also most likely switch gears as quickly as the woman did.
Our verse today says that God is
with us wherever we go. He sees all that we do. -Every thought that we act on
and every feeling we unleash. Even when
it seems that no one else is around.
Think about
it!
1. Recall a time when you were having a bad day and didn’t think that you could get yourself together. If God appeared in front of you what do you think your response would be like?
2. In that same scenario, think a friend that you wanted to impress; the cool kid or perhaps a crush. If he/she suddenly appeared in the same moment, would your response be any different than it was in the first question? If so, how and why?
1. Recall a time when you were having a bad day and didn’t think that you could get yourself together. If God appeared in front of you what do you think your response would be like?
2. In that same scenario, think a friend that you wanted to impress; the cool kid or perhaps a crush. If he/she suddenly appeared in the same moment, would your response be any different than it was in the first question? If so, how and why?
If there is
a big difference, we should offer up a prayer to God asking him to make us fall
in love with him and want to impress him more than anyone else, even ourselves.
3. How does it make you feel to see that we do have the ability to change the way we feel when we really want to?
3. How does it make you feel to see that we do have the ability to change the way we feel when we really want to?
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Helping Hands Camp is a faith based youth camp that completes clean up and construction projects for those in the community that are unable to do so. These five devotions were written earlier in the year and were included in the booklet used at camp. The anchor verse is same throughout the week.
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