Amelia KidZone - Amelia Church of Christ

Cars can be the biggest blessing but also a thorn in your side. Cars are awesome. We can make quick errands, drive to the movies, go out to eat, they can help us during emergencies, and they get us to church on Sunday mornings. Cars only become a problem when they don’t work. Nothing is more frustrating than a rushed morning, no breakfast, and then you get to your car and it doesn’t start. My stomach hurts just thinking about it. This big hunk of metal “blessing” is now just a giant paperweight. It now will take time and money to fix, and there isn’t a guarantee that it will work again. It seems to be a gamble whether something else will go wrong, so you’re anxious about going anywhere, afraid it will not start at the grocery store leaving you stranded while all your meat and produce goes bad until someone picks you up.

Cars are not forever, but somehow we forget that. We forget that things are not forever all the time. We seem to rely on not just our cars, but our jobs, money, friends, family and assume those things will never goaway. We are quickly disappointed when those things are gone, and we ask God, why? We get angry and blame him and feel he owes us an explanation. God never promised us that these things would last forever, so why do we have these expectations?

This is an important lesson that we will be focusing on this Sunday. Our kids will learn where God is faithful and the promises that he has made to us. Make sure you go over the memory verse with your kid this week!

I will sing of the tender mercies of the Lord forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
Psalm 89:1