Wisdom House Homeschool

* BFS Assignment #102 - Try it, You’ll Like It! *

September 15th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Memory Verse:

Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Please try to learn our memory verse this week. We will be sharing a new verse every week and hope that you will store them in your hearts and find a special joy in His words.

Intro: Try it, you’ll like it! (Life Cereal)
When everyone else was afraid to try Life Cereal, they called on Mikey. Sometimes stepping out of our comfort zone is just too scary. Have you felt God gently (or maybe not so gently) nudging you to do something for someone else? You know that it needs to be done, but you keep putting it off because it is outside of your comfort zone? Well ladies, this week we are taking a step outside of our comfort zones.

Assignment: This week I want you to do something for someone else. Do you have a neighbor that needs you? Do you know an elderly person or single mom that could use you? What about the homeless? Pack even one single sack lunch and give it to someone in need. Do you know someone in blogland that is struggling right now and could use a note from you about how much you care? Pray about this. Let God put on your heart the perfect thing for you to do for another. Now, here is the kicker…I DO NOT want you to post about what you do. Whatever you choose to do is between you and God. Our rewards are in heaven, not here on earth, Mathew 6:1. I want you to post about how doing this “act” made you feel. Was stepping out of your comfort zone in this area as hard as you thought it might be? Could you see the gratefulness in their eyes? Hear it in their voice? Tell it from their typing? Do you think you might make doing things like this a more regular part of your time?  If this is an area that you are already active in, tell us how you feel this has impacted your life.

Picture ideas: Post a picture of your “Helping Hands”.  Let us see a picture of your hands, the hands that have honored God by being Christ like and serving others.

Share your favorite scripture in your post.

Wow! What an assignment! God knew I really needed this one. How quickly He showed me what I needed to do :) It hurts sometimes when He holds that "mirror" up to us doesn't it? I'm not sure if this assignment done as much for this other person as it did for me. How did it make me feel? Humble which is what our Lord prefers us to be.

Happy. This was an eye opening moment for me. I suppose I had closed my eyes to this situation and was just telling myself I could "see" what was going on. Now I have a new perspective and a new attitude about it which of course is less stress inducing.

Appreciative. I thank God for this assignment and His Grace that He extends to us so that we may show it to others.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.