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• What is the hardest thing you have had to do and achieved? (Discuss)
• What is something you have tried and it was just too hard and you
gave up? (Discuss)
• One of the dangers of just giving in and not trying harder is we
may never reach our God given potential
• But just think if those things you thought you could not do, thought
of a way to achieve them, and then how did you feel at the end? (Discuss)
• Nothing that is worthwhile in this world we live in comes without
some effort on our part.
• In the morning when you are to head off to school, you just take
it for granted that Mum will have clothes washed and iron for you. That
there will be food in the cupboard and fridge for breakfast and to make
lunches.
• As you get older and leave home to get married or to work some
distance from home you won't have Mum or Dad there to prepare these things.
• It will be a matter of do them yourself - Go to the supermarket,
wash and iron your clothes etc
• Then the time will come when you have your own children - Sleepless
nights, perky/pooey kids, demanding etc. If you really love your children,
then you somehow manage the strength to survive.
• Sadly there are others who find the task too hard, sometimes it
is because a Mum is doing all this on her own, and says I don't want to
do this anymore.
• She says, I no longer can be with my friends, I only stay at home
and look after kids, I am going to let someone else look after the children
as I don't want to do it any more. It is too hard.
• This is what the story we read today is also about
• People wanted to be a friend of Jesus, but when they found out
that it meant having to make a commitment they did not want to do, they
deserted him as it was too hard.
• Just imaging how sad Jesus felt.
• That is how he feel when people refuse to come to church, or to
talk to him as they say their prayers
• Remember - When we don't say our prayers each night or refuse to
come to church to be with God's extended families, we too are deserting
Jesus as well.
• So let us make sure we never ignore Jesus - Worship, Prayer etc
will ensure we don't
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