Most children have already gone back to school to start the fall semester of the 2016-2017 school year. This time of the year can be both exciting and challenging. Students are meeting and getting to know their teachers, reconnecting with old classmates and being introduced to new classmates.
As Christians, we know that we have the awesome responsibility to “represent” God here on the earth. I think that it is important for children to know that they too can be “ambassadors for Christ” not only in their church and at home, but in their schools and community as well.
On Sunday, September 18, 2016 during the eleven o’clock service, I was given the opportunity to say a few words and minister in poetry about going back to school to the children and congregation of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Philadelphia. I used Luke 11:9 as the scriptural backdrop for my spiel which says: And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
I reminded parents that as their children grow up that they will make mistakes as we all do and will need to ask for help from time to time. I explained to the children that they may be the only Christ that their friends and classmates might see and to be “lights” in this world of darkness by obeying their teachers, and being helpful. I also urged them not to believe that just because they were children that they couldn’t be an example of God at school and to always remember that they could ask their heavenly father for help to be able to “do the right thing.”
I also reminded the entire congregation that all of us need help to “live right” and should go to God in prayer for assistance. In closing, remember, we all as children of the most high God have access to Him through prayer and should never be ashamed to ask Him to help us be the Christian example that He would be pleased with.
Take a listen to the lyric poem “Help me Father” on the link below and be encouraged!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHFvVQxfh0c
Blessings!