Eight Hope Builders for College Corner Kids: #2- A Hearts Desire

Hello folks,

It will be VBS time before you know it! In the mean time here is the second installment of an eight part series to give hope to kids in CC

A Hearts Desire.

What did you want to grow up to be when you were a little kid? Did you want to be a doctor, a singer, a movie star,a nurse, a pilot, a professional football player, a fireman? I wanted to be a cartoonist at Disney. I hope yours worked out - mine didn't - because I made decisions that lead me down another road to where I am today.

I wonder how many kids in CC desire to be something cool when they grow up but may not get the support to see their dreams come true. Or, the environment they are living in may not be conducive to be anything outside the reality that surrounds them. Some kids may have a dream but have no one to dream with them or point them in the direction that they should seek to achieve it. Some may have the grit and determination to make their dream a reality.That is Good for the later but what about the former? What about the majority that need help to become all that God created them to be. How can we (VBS and the local body of Christ) help a kid become all he or she was created to be? That is where we come in! We point kids to the creator! Who else knows the plans for the kids futures and how to get them there. We teach, preach and exhort kids to come to our awesome God, make him #1 and he will take care of the rest. Listen to the Psalmist says:

Psalm 37:4 (New Living Translation)

4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you your heart’s desires.

This summer we will share with kids about how much God loves and cares for them. When they experience God's love the delight in him will come naturally because God is delightful! Next, God gives them the desire, dream, wish, the things their heart longs for. When a kid (or an adult for that matter!) is in a delightful relationship in God's family their heart will be right and the desire will be right and then God will make it all turn out all right!

Jesus said it simply works like this:

Matthew 6

33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

We the body work together to make disciples of children who seek God first and then God will give them a life with everything they need. As kids grow they begin to see hope that they can be all the God made them to be. We are hope builders for the kids in CC. Pray that his Spirit leads VBS and that we keep him first so that the heart's desire of Community VBS - kids receive Christ as Lord and saviour - will be given to us by our awesome heavenly father!