So..today

I thought in Sunday School for the second time. By the way I'm just a helper and the teacher asked me to take over today. Maybe it's some sort of training, I don't know. Anyway it was an opportunity for me to tell these kids about God and how God is good.

But anyway...I found it a bit hard teaching these boys...yes...there are ONLY boys in my class. I wonder where are all the 11-12 year old girls in my church. It's like when I'm talking they would talk in Chinese about something I just said...this annoys me a bit-lar...but on the whole, I think I was able to tell the message loudly and clearly even though there were numerous disruptions here and there...can't all boys just sit still and keep queit for a moment? :-)

The Bible story that I told was Jesus turning water into wine. Something that I too have learnt is that Jesus will give us the best because He wants us to get what is best. Yes He gives us our essential needs, family, friends and things that we treasure a lot but the best gift he gives us is new life. This reminds me of something that I read while I was doing my devotion. It says clearly in the Bible that people are not just sinners bacause they sin, but they sin because they are sinners. Christ has died on the cross so that we can be saved and thus obtain this new life. Without God's grace and mercy, what would be of us?

Quoting Eugene Peterson(his quote which I read somewhere) "The word 'sinner' is not to become and arsenal of condemnation but the expectation of grace". We as sinners need grace. We need a Saviour.

So since Jesus gives us the best and He wants us to test the best 'wine', we must be committed to Christ, to build a close relationship with Him, to acknowledge Him as our Lord and Saviour.