team pictureIt was the second night of a 4-day Bible club some of us interns were doing for a church in the area, and none of us felt prepared. When we prayed on the way to the club, each of us told God we weren’t ready, weren’t prepared, and desperately needed Him to take it and do it for us. My brother, Daniel and I, had the older kids in our small group and I think we were the least prepared of everyone. When the kids arrived, they noticed that I kept a golf ball in my Bible case and asked why I did that. I told them that I keep it there to remind of how small I am, like a golf ball, and how great God is. I told them that the Bible says that God breathed the stars out of His mouth. We discussed how huge the stars are and how much bigger our God is. They were awestruck that God is so huge, and yet takes the time to number the hairs on our head! Then we talked about that night’s lesson for about 5 minutes, until one of the kids mentioned boyfriends and girlfriends.
We realized that we needed to put our lesson on pause and reach these kids’ needs that they were open to. We then talked about how important it is to keep our hearts only for the one we marry. We spent probably 30 minutes discussing IMG_0742what God says about it as well as many other issues that they had questions about. As we were packing things up for the night, I couldn’t stop praising God for what He had done! I truly believe that if we hadn’t felt totally unprepared, and so been “forced”, if you will, to give it all completely to God, that discussion would never have taken place! Truly, it is when we are weakest, that God is strongest!
-Victoria Getz