God likes kids

Last night the kids and young adults of our church organised a fundraiser for Ukraine.  It was an evening of music and buns ( cant get better than that can you?) and was due to kick off  at 7pm.   But at about 2pm the musician cancelled cos he wasn't well.   Which was a bit of a disaster to say the least.

After many phonecalls at about half past five someone was found who agreed to come and play guitar and sing.  In the meantime I had said that Id stand in if needs be - despite being exceedingly rusty on the old busking routines.  So I turned up with my keyboard and a guy called Rodger from another church turned up with his guitar.  He had a list of popular songs and some chords.  The room started to fill up with people who sat round tables with their tea and buns and chatted away.  Rodger and I decided to wing it.  We had never met, we had never played or sung together, we had no rehearsal at all.  I ditched the piano and grabbed a cajon and a microphone and he started to play and sing and off we went. 

And we had the most brilliant time.  Well, I did anyway.  We spent an hour and some singing songs like ' Stand by Me' and ' Brown Eyed Girl' and Love me Tender'.  I sang harmonies. I knew every single one of the songs on his playlist.   Rodger provided the good natured banter in between the songs.  It was a great night.   More people turned up than I think anyone had anticipated.  The young people did a really great job of running the whole thing.  By any standards it was a resounding success ( havent yet heard how much money was raised but Im sure that too will exceed expectations)

The lesson I learned from last night was that God really really wants to encourage young people who are taking their first steps into participating in life with Jesus.   He takes their loaves and fish and multiplies them.  He sets them in the middle of the circle of adults and says proudly ' Look at these precious ones, aren't they brilliant?'   He loves the courage of those youngsters who are prepared to step out of the boat and walk towards Him.   He rewards their efforts with success.  When things have the potential to go wrong God steps in a makes them right.  He will, of course, do this for us adults too if we ask Him to. But I think His special favour is on children.  We should get them more involved in every aspect of church life.  God cant resist honouring them.   We tend to forget in our western 21st century society that in Bible times many of the heroes of the faith were so young.  David was a kid when he faced Goliath.  Mary was a teenager when she carried Jesus.  Timothy was a youngster when he worked with Paul.  Lets cheer on our kids and teens and encourage them to get involved with every aspect of church life.  Lets allow them to preach and pray and lead worship and organise events.  We might learn a thing or two.  And we will definitely be blessed.




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