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I dont think that kids should be driving. I know that “things are different now” but third grade still seems to young for me. Imagine our church parking lot filled up with elementary aged drivers: backing out recklessly, bumping into each other’s cars, not noticing pedestrians or other large objects… It would be worse than when our Seniors Ministry dismisses from a potluck! Besides, you dont see kids driving in the Bible either.

It seems that kids usually end up where adults take them. Children go where people take them.

Do you remember the popular story of Children coming to Jesus? In Mark 10 we read how the disciples tried to shoo the children away but Jesus got mad and said,

“Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.”

We recently had an event at church where 140 kids came up to be prayed for. Thirty of those kids accepted Jesus into their hearts for the first time ever! It was amazing to see the Holy Spirit use a simple presentation of Jesus to stir the heart of a child.

Many kids came out that day. No kids drove themselves to our church that day. Someone had to bring them…

Having faith like a child is an important lesson for us adults to learn. But that is not what I want to highlight from this story. The naration begins with a subtle introduction,

“The people brought children to Jesus…”

You need to bring children to stand in front of Jesus. It is that simple! If we agree that kids shouldn’t drive cars then you must be their driver. We had a ton of kids at our event last week… but we had room for more. Help those who cannot yet help themselves: bring a child to Jesus.

In 1984 Alexey Pazhitnov created a drop down puzzler called Tetris. It is a game that we all know and love and, sometimes, hate. The idea is simple enough: place all of your blocks so that they fit without any gaps. However, its only a matter of time until a block pops up that dosent fit. What do you do then? I panic. I begin cramming blocks right and left. My hasty decisions make problems worse. Inevitably I find myself in serious need… in need of the straight block.

Waiting for the right piece to solve our Tetris problems is hard. Waiting for the right piece to solve out life problems is harder. When things come our way that don’t fit we panic. We have lapse in judgement and make bad situations worse. Soon our problems become piled up to the right and to the left and we find ourselves waiting for God to plug all of the gaps in our life.
David knew what it was like to have to wait. We know him as God’s anointed, warrior king and giant slayer. But his life didn’t always stack up as planed. Much of David’s time was spent in exile, slogging through political coups and hiding in caves. Through it all he had learned to wait on the Lord. He writes in Psalms 27,

I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.

It is always worth waiting for God. No mater how long it takes he always comes through. There is nothing as satisfying as getting that straight block to clear out four rows in your game of Tetris. It is so much more satisfying to get an answer from God after having waited it out.
Do it right. Be strong. Wait for it.

Billy made a Christmas song for our families at church. I hope that it dosent scare the kids too much. Believe it or not, this whole thing was put together in less than 20 minuets!  Please enjoy… and make sure that your speakers are not turned up to loud. It might be a little embarrassing.

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