Had a very awesome night with our middle school ministry this week. Opened with a couple of quick crazy games, before getting a couple of volunteers to lick peanut butter off Plexiglas. Opened our ReFuel series with a hilarious intro video we put together with the help of Kevin and David Dolfin. Sweet and funny stuff. You can find the video to the right of this post.
Our focus tonight was on explaining that a devotional life with God is not what you think. I spoke about how I personally am always trying to have caffeine fuel me. It works a lot of the time, but inevitably caffeine and sugar will take you from a really awesome high to a sudden and dramatic crash. Isn't the same way in life? We try to fill our lives with happiness through academic and athletic successes, material possessions, friendships, relationships, pride, etc. Those things fill us for awhile, but eventually we crash. The fuel we need to be constantly filling up with is God. Our series theme verse says this: May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God (Ephesians 3:19). What an awesome promise: a love so amazing that we can't even imagine that sort of awesomeness. That just blows me away. That's EXACTLY the sort of thing I want in my life!!!
The problem is that we think a devotional life with God has to be complicated. We have to spend like 2 hours reading scripture, read through the whole Bible in a year, memorize a million verses, etc. But thats not what it's about. ReFueling/connecting with God is about coming to God (Matthew 11:28-29), following God (John 8:12), and being with God (John 14:3). We come to God in prayer, follow God's Word (the Bible), and find some quite time in our crazy lives to just be in God's presence. It's not overly complicated, and it does not have to be. If we want to really live life on full, experiencing life in the most awesome way possible, we simply need to make little but powerful connections with God daily.
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