Thank God for Sunday School....................

Sunday School was such a blessing today.  I was covering for someone who could not make it and so had to improvise.  I decided to pick up and continue from a lesson a couple of weeks earlier.  They had been discussing love and what God says love is.  They had started by reading the famous scripture;

I Cor. 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

They then went on to categorise each 'love is' into those that God approves of and those He doesn't,
after which they discussed what each meant, in real life application.

Why was today a blessing?  To hear children discuss, openly, confidently and without reservation their own experiences of 'envy', 'perseverence', 'rejoicing in truth', 'trust', and so on was really humbling and inspiring.  In fact they didn't want to stop sharing and so we continued the discussion after service had ended.

As adults we somehow seem to lose this ability to share frankly and in fellowship with one another.  Let's not.

Interestingly the children had difficulty understanding what 'love is not proud' meant because so far their experiences of 'pride' has been limited to 'expressions of joy and happiness' from namely Mum & Dad, for things they had achieved or done.  Understanding the other 'pride', you know, the one that hinders personal development, through acts of arrogance, vanity, boastfulness and conceit, is something they didn't get.  I guess this 'pride' isn't a part of their daily lives and you know what it doesn't have to be.  Nor does it have to be a part of our adult lives..........................................

I know I have said it before and I'll continue to; I learn so much from children and today (day 62) I am so thankful for my lesson!

As we come to the end of February, tot up those blessings.