Blown Away
Read:
1 Thessalonians 5:14-23
Memorize:
Luke 6:46
"Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?"
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?"
How about you?
Is Jesus Lord of the music you listen to? The programs you watch? The language you use at school as well as at home or in church? Don't divide your life into little squares and give Him only some of them. Make Jesus Lord of everything.
I think Mom is being so unfair. She won't let me buy the music CD that I want, said Rachel as she arranged and rearranged small, colorful quilt squares on her grandmother's coffee table. She studied the design. "There! I think I've finally got it. What do you think, Gram?"
Her grandmother looked it over. "I like it," she answered. "That will make a pretty patchwork pillow."
"What is it with Mom?" continued Rachel. "Does she think the kind of music all the kids are playing will make me do drugs or something, Gram?"
As she spoke, the door flew open and Grandpa whirled in with a gust of wind. Whoosh! Several of the squares for Rachel's pillow blew across the room. "Oh, Grandpa! Look what you've done!" exclaimed Rachel. "It took me a long time to get those arranged just right." She gathered the squares and tried to put them back in place. "I can't remember which one was where," she moaned as Grandpa hastily apologized.
Grandma looked thoughtful. "Rachel, do you think the music you want to buy glorifies the Lord?" she asked.
"Oh, come on, Gram," whined Rachel. "What does it hurt? I go to Sunday school and church and everything. Listening to that music isn't going to change me."
"It seems to me that you've divided your life up into nice little squares-like those quilt pieces," said Grandma. "One piece of your life is for friends, another for music, another for books, and so on. Some of the pieces belong to Jesus, and other pieces don't." Rachel frowned as she adjusted the squares on the table once again. "When the wind blew, some of your quilt squares flew all over," continued Grandma, "and when problems or temptations blow into your life like that wind, all your neat little life squares could blow apart." She held up a spool of thread. "You need thread to run through all those pieces and bind them together," added Grandma, "and you need Jesus to be the 'thread' that runs through your whole life, honey-through every part of it, not through only certain squares. Then nothing can ever blow you away!"
Make Jesus Lord