To be
flexible is to be open to others plans and ideas and willing to be instructed
and challenged to change for the better. Jesus was certainly flexible when it
came to doing what God wanted Him to do. How many of us would be willing to go
out into the desert for 40 days…and fast and pray (Luke 4:1-14)? How many of us
would be willing to give up our comfortable homes (Luke 9:58) to go wander
around a countryside telling people how to live to please His Father? How many
of us would be obedient to death—beginning with an arrest by Roman soldiers (Luke
22:39-54)? Jesus did.
Training Tip – During a family discussion take a green twig and a
thin piece of dry wood or dowel about the same size as the green twig. Bend the
twig and talk about flexibility. Then bend the dry wooden dowel, or have one of
your kids try to bend it. It will likely break demonstrating inflexibility.
Tell your children about the flexibility that Jesus showed, and discuss how we
need to be like Jesus. Focused on heavenly things…not on earthly things. Doing
what God wants us to do…not on our own selfish desires.
Lord Jesus, help us to be focused on what God wants
us to do—to be flexible to change from our own rigid ways.
Please keep praying for Michelle in the Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle. God be merciful and give her a healing touch.
All
scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise
noted.
© 2013 by Mickey
M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
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