It takes a moment to remember…
It seems like half a lifetime ago…
And it is yet another thing that the Lord has chronicled in my life via media-recorded remembering…
I speak to this often, I am grateful media, photos, writing are tools, and so I thank you Facebook for keeping track of my memories!
One of the biggest advantages of teaching Sunday school was/is actually being the students OF God. God is watching knowing where and when to tweak our faith, and 14 years ago I was teaching Sunday School with fun, speaking about the lost coin, the lost sheep and the lost son. I had no idea that God would find me that day in an unique way. And when I spoke out loud: ‘God sent Jesus to make the Word of God spread faster’, including the pouring of activated living yeast onto hydrogen peroxide and dish soap, one of my fun science experiments, well, something in my head CLICKED. I can still hear in the audible CLICK! SNAP! And I said, “Oh!” and I discovered within myself that I had learned (and needed to know more) about Jesus too.
It was not just teaching the kids, including my own, but a deepening moment in my own walk of faith… WOW… and that experience and that info sat for 2 more years in my head, until 2 years later, twelve years ago, God really started sparking in my brain, and my Fruit of the Spirit of knowledge popped like popcorn!!! Yeah… setting the stage for an awakening… WOW WOW GOD, THANK YOU!!!
AND YOU KNOW, THE LORD KEEPS SPREADING HIS GOOD NEWS IN HIS OWN WAY…
We are blessed, we are treasures searched, we are sheep found, we are lost children returned. Luke 15 was speaking about me – as well as those lost then found stories..
I am now hearing, with open windows, to a long-off sound of children playing in a playground, I know that the local school is but half a mile away from here, the school my own 20+ yr olds attended. God keeps making more children of God, both physically and spiritually. God made me a child once again growing, craving His sustenance, yearning for knowing Him better. I am to remember today on this. Anniversary that if He gave me my life, gave me my rebirth, and gave me my FOREVER – through faith, fun, and foam, how even more He will continue to lead me – and lead us… One day at a time, let us keep following.
Thank You Lord, thank You for You, thank You for Me.
Amen
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Luke 15 NKJV
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” So He spoke this parable to them, saying:
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.
The Parable of the Lost Coin
“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!’ Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
The Parable of the Lost Son
Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’
“And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.
“Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’
“But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
“And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”
