All parents will testify to the importance, and the difficulty, of teaching young children to ask for things, rather than to demand them or expect them by right. Learning to ask, and ask nicely, is part of growing up. It is part of recognizing that we will always depend on others for things, and that the way to receive them is not to snatch or demand or sit around and hope, but to ask.
Did you enjoy Masterchef? All those delicious dishes, the roller-coaster ride of emotion of the passionate amateur chefs, the critique and encouragement of the judges, the agony and the ecstasy! The only problem was that you never actually got to taste the food! We can see it, we can know all about it from what the judges and contestants tell us, but we cant ever really know what it's like unless we actually eat and taste it for ourselves.
A recent advertisement reads, “DON’T JUST LIKE. Like is watered down love. Like is mediocre. Like is the wishy washy emotion of the content. Athletes don’t do it for the like of the sport. Artists don’t suffer for the like of art. There is no I like NY T-shirt. And Romeo didn’t just like Juliet. LOVE. NOW THAT’S POWERFUL STUFF. Love changes things. Upsets things. Conquers things. Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and will ever happen. (Now, buy our product).
From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise
Psalm 8:2
To me they can be a sea of faces.
But to the LORD they are intimately known and dearly loved.
We take this opportunity to thank those who take God’s Word to children. Next week is our Sunday school presentation. So this week it would be great to honour and pray for the work that happens beyond the walls of our church.
