THE CHILDREN STORY CORNER

NOT MY WAY

Though He was perfect, Jesus did not insist that everyone should do everything according to His wishes or plans. He was humble, teachable, and always interested in pleasing His Father and doing His will.

Do we try always to please our God more than any other person? It takes a lot of practice before we are able to know what He would have us do at all times. But the more we practice, the quicker we will be able to obey. Most of all, we need to talk to God and ask Him to help us to understand what would make Him happy. We need to read our Bibles and try to remember Scriptures because that will help us a lot in knowing what we should do at all times. When we are not sure, the best thing we can do is to wait. We are told that the Lord does not want us to go ahead and do things, but be willing to wait when we are not sure just what God would want us to do. Another thing we could do is to ask someone who we know loves God who is older, maybe your Mom or Dad.

While waiting is good when we are not sure what we should do, we are also told in the Bible not to just do nothing, but to be looking for the answer. When you DO know what to do, like obeying your Mom or Dad and doing what they ask right away, this pleases them, especially when you do something with a happy face. And just as they are happy when you obey cheerfully, the Lord feels the same happiness when we try to please Him and do what He wants us to do right away with a happy heart. There are many examples in the Bible of when God’s people were asked to do something, and they wanted to do it as soon as they could. That is true obedience. The Bible tells us of many of God’s people who rose early in the morning to obey what they had been told to do, even when the thing God asked was very hard. (See Genesis 22:1-19). Do you always do what you know you should right away, or do you find lots of excuses not to obey? Remember, when you obey your parents, you make God happy.

Your Aunt Vivien