THINK TOGETHER
What is something that you can do on your own without any help? What is something that you can’t do without someone helping you?
READ TOGETHER
One of the most important things that happens to you as you grow up is that you learn to do more and more things for yourself. Can you feed yourself? Can you dress yourself? What else can you do for yourself? This is called independence. We become more independent when we can do things on our own. And we all love to do things ourselves don’t we?
But another very important thing that God wants us to learn is that none of us will ever be totally independent. We will always need help. Even as a grownup we still need help. What do grownups need help with sometimes?
You see none of us was made by God to be completely independent. And we are especially dependent on God for help every single day. Without God’s help we will literally would not be able to do anything. Even Jesus, who was God, didn’t do anything as a human being without God’s help and permission. Listen to how Jesus talked about his relationship with the Father:
John 5:19. So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
Jesus lived totally dependent on God and totally obedient to God, and that is exactly how we are supposed to live too. We are meant to be totally dependent on Jesus and totally obedient to Jesus. Whenever we think that we don’t need God or that we can live our lives without him, that’s called sin. Instead we need to admit when we need help and we need to be OK with not always being OK. Why? Because trusting God is the most important thing we can do, and we won’t trust God if we don’t think we need God and his love and kindness every moment of every day.
Because of Jesus we can depend on God’s love no matter what.
With Jesus we can trust God and admit that we need help.
DO SOMETHING TOGETHER
Listen to Lord I Need You by Matt Maher. Sing along if you know it.
PRAY TOGETHER
Jesus, I need you. I can’t do anything good without you first being good to me. Thank you for loving me all the time. Amen.
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