A winner? Lots of candy stayed on his face!

We must learn to trust God’s will, timing

Jan. 24, 2008

 

What in life will make you happy?

 

Have you ever been mad at God for not giving you what you wanted?

 

And, have you ever felt unsure about an important decision and trusted God to lead you in the right direction?

 

Ponder those for a few minutes each.

  

Young people in Montezuma’s ecumenical youth group were posed with those questions during their regular meeting on Thursday evening, Jan. 24 in the Presbyterian Family Center.

 

The evening started with ice cream sundaes, then a thought-provoking DVD by Michigan youth pastor Rob Bell. After discussion centered on the questions above, the night ended with a silly game involving whipped cream and candy covering people’s faces.

 

In the DVD, Bell talked about a trip to a mall with his two-and-one-half-year-old son, who spotted a toy he wanted at a kiosk in the mall’s hallway.

 

“I want one,” Bell said his son asked. “I need one.”

 

Dad said, “no.”

 

“But I thought you loved me,” came the reply.

 

“Sometimes I say no,” Bell told the audience. “And it’s because I love him. I see things that he doesn’t. I can see circumstances that might make him miserable. He needs to have faith in me.”

 

Bell’s point is that we need to have faith in God.

 

“We might ask, ‘God, how long do I have to wait?’” Bell said.

 

“Or, ‘God, why can’t you see this is what I need?’”

 

“We have our own ideas,” Bell said, “and we expect God to provide whatever it is.”

 

“When you’re waiting for something, believe that God is good and that just across the street, He has something better for you,” Bell concluded.

 

Sara Erselius and Eric and Marlene Johnson, adult leaders, split the youth into three groups to talk about the three questions at the top of the story, which are based on what Bell talked about in his presentation.

 

Then, it was time for the whipped cream game. Students spread whipped cream on one another’s faces, then dropped pieces of candy on them, in an effort to see how many pieces of candy they could get to stick.

 

 

 

 

Applying the whipped cream! The candy was next.

 

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