This weekend was Disciple Now at my church, Kirby Woods Baptist Church. I was a Co-Leader for 8th grade girls. It was such a fun, encouraging, and convicting time. My Leader was my sweet friend, Casey, who I go to school with. This girl is such an encouragement to me. We got to talk before bed each night and we have so much in common. She did such a great job with our girls (she is their Sunday School teacher, so she already knew them all). I loved getting to know our 5 sweet 8th grade girls.
On Saturday afternoon, we went to Hollywood Community Center and held a block party. This was a fun, yet trying time. My girls were assigned to the Photo Booth. We got an iPad and two printers (that were as slow as Christmas) and the girls would take pictures of anyone who wanted their picture taken and then print them off. This was a trying time, because some of the people would get impatient and our printers were so slow that we would have to ask the people to come back and pick their pictures up later (which they did not like). Our girls did a great job at staying patient with the people and at working hard to do everything they could to keep the people happy. I was so proud of their hard work.
During my quiet time Saturday morning, I read Philippians 2:13-18.
"For it is God who is working in you, [enabling you] both to desire and to work out His good purpose. Do everything without grumbling and arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world. Hold firmly to the message of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn't run or labor for nothing. But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me."
This was such an encouragement to me on a day when we were tired and having to work with impatient people. We had to let Jesus work through us, because we could not and should not do it through ourselves.
I learned so much this weekend that I cannot even tell you everything. The theme of this weekend was Jesus is greater than ________? We put Jesus behind so many things in our lives. Jesus is so much more important than all of the other things that we put before Him. Jesus should take preeminence in our lives and it is so wrong that we do not put Him where He belongs. One thing that Justin (our children's minister who preached to the middle schoolers) told us in his message on Friday night was that some people say "it should have been me on the cross". BUT we COULD NOT have been on the cross, because we had to have a PERFECT sacrifice to save us from our sins. We could not save ourselves, because we are sinners who are not perfect. We needed Jesus to die for us, because He was the PERFECT sacrifice.
I am so thankful for this weekend and for everything that the Lord taught me through Brother Justin, through Casey, through Keresa (my host home mother), and through my sweet girls.
Lord, change me every day to look more like your precious son, Jesus. Help me to remember everything that You have taught me through this D-Now.
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