Story Published:
Jul 27, 2011 at 4:05 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 27, 2011 at 4:05 PM CDT
We live in an area where school has started.
Today was the first day of kindergarten for our daughter, and she was very excited. She has wanted to go to school (this one in particular) for quite a while. I took her today and she enjoyed herself...didn't want to leave.
She wasn't the only one.
There were many kindergarten students who didn't want to leave today. Seeing this made me happy, but it also gave me a different perspective of this verse: "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."
In looking at my daughter and the countless number of children in schools across this country and throughout the world, I'm refreshed. Naturally, this verse refers to the trouble and turmoil God's children had brought upon themselves which caused their being conquered and exiled. When I look at our world - our society - today, I ask "how will we be delivered from our troubles and trials?"
Perhaps the "new thing" that the Lord will use is our children. Perhaps the Lord will use these young, energetic persons to turn our economy, our society, and our world around. Many of us have reached a point where we've become too settled, or too "set in our ways."
We have become comfortable with mediocrity and minors. But just because we're comfortable with low quality does not negate the high definition existence the Lord has prepared for us. I guess this Weekly Word! may be for our teachers and educators more than others.
You are the ones tasked with the responsibility of molding these young minds. I thank God for all of you who work with our children in the hopes that they will be great blessings to God's kingdom and humanity. What you do matters.
Remember, Jesus was a child once. Can you think of anything he did?
