Yesterday in chapel I spent some time working through Genesis 2 and 3. The essence of the message is that we often fall for the enemy’s ‘set ups’ that leads us to then feeling the need to ‘cover up’.
The reality is that we are horrible at hiding from each other. We are even worse at hiding from God! But I love that God came through the garden asking the question “Where are you?”. IMO this is one of the most fundamental and important questions that God asks us on a regular basis… “Where are you… right now? Where is your faith right now? Where is your belief right now?” How we answer these questions really gives an indication of where our priorities lay.
Thankfully we have a God who loves us enough to ask the difficult questions to reveal to us that we are covering up. Who are we kidding…? Who is it that we think we are folling when it comes to where we REALLY are in life? Our friends? Our Family? Our God?
I challenged the students to think about where they are ‘at’ and then consider that there will always be a time to “pay up”. Thankfully Jesus paid the price for sin that we truly deserve. “While we were still sinners…”, He paid the price!
Which led to me talking about the importance of them ‘stepping up’… time for declaration of who they really are and what they really believe. A call to an authentic life if you will.
That leads me to talk about baptism. Perhaps the ultimate declaration of who you are and what you believe… I can feel a special baptism chapel coming up!!
Dream…
