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Stop, Drop & Pray

"When you sin and see the mess you're in, you need to STOP, DROP and PRAY!!"

We just finished our annual "Marysville Valley Vacation Bible School".  Our theme this year was "Safety in Jesus" and our key verse was from James 4:7 which tells us "Submit yourselves, then, to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you."

Sonia Walak, who wrote the outline for the VBS conveyed to us the parallel of "Safety in Jesus" from a physical standpoint and from a spiritual. 

Each night we had special guests to present programs for the kids and adults.  Our special guests included EMTs, Police Officers, a Karate Expert, The Crash Dummies, Smokey the Bear, a forest fire fighter and on the last night we had a combined crew from two local fire departments here in full gear with a huge fire truck that the kids and adults were able to climb on and through.  We also had an ambulance that they could check out thoroughly, a "smoke house" so that the folks could learn what to do if caught in a house on fire, and demonstrations of how to handle a grease fire and the kids and adults got to put a fire out with fire extinguishers.

Of course, after each night's special guest there was a Bible lesson that paralleled the demonstration. The children and adults received God's Word and 14 were saved or rededicated their lives to the Lord.  Praise Him!!!

We all learned that for a fire you need 3 components... oxygen, fuel and heat.  For sin to occur you need 3 components, opportunity, temptation and desire. 

We are all tempted.  Sometimes when we act upon that temptation we experience physical consequences.  Other times we suffer spiritual repercussions.

Either way, temptation that leads to sin hurts. 

We can't avoid the after effects of sin.  But, we can avoid the sin. 

So, the next time you're tempted, remember to resist the devil and he will flee.

Perhaps the words of the song, "Stop, Drop & Pray", written by Bill Wotring of Glenvale Church should be.....

When you're tempted to sin and see the mess it can bring.... STOP, DROP & PRAY!!!

1 John 4:4 greater is He that is in you, then he that is in the world.

Pastor Larry