These [tag]youth Sunday school lessons[/tag] focus on the Book of Judges. The [tag]Book of Judges[/tag] 1-3 shows four times when the Israelites forgot about God and worshiped the idols of neighboring people – beginning only one century after leaving Egypt.
These chapters are great examples of how easily we can forget God in our own lives and how important it is to stay on track.
[tag]God’s love[/tag] is a Father’s love. He wants to enjoy our plans and our company. When we forget, not only does He get hurt, but things don’t go very well for us.
If you stuck your ear to the sky and listened closely, you could hear the echo coming from lots of kids, young and old, all across America: I”¦JUST”¦WANT”¦TO”¦LOOK”¦COOL. Kids want to wear what the cool kids are wearing. They want what’s on in the windows in the hottest stores in the mall. They want clothes with names on them: Hollister. Abercrombe. Deliah’s. Pac Sun.
If there’s a party? They want an invitation.
If there’s a talent show? They want first prize.
Things in that sense have not changed one little bit since the first days of Israel.
The Israelites got in trouble because they started admiring guys who were not actually cool. They just looked cool. We don’t want to make the same mistakes. Hence, we’re going to learn another good saying that will help us remember the difference between looking cool and actually being cool.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING NICE AND BEING GOOD.
The reason we are discussing this is that if you haven’t already, very soon you will be under peer pressure very similar to what the Israelites went through when they were a young nation. They were sort of like teenagers in nation years. You will soon find a lot of pressure to look cool, but you really want to BE cool.
NICE means that people are drawn to you for any number of reasons.
GOOD means that people are drawn to you for the right reasons.
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