Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,… II Corinthians
6:17a
This week was Vacation
Bible School with an old-fashioned circuit riding preacher theme. We decorated
the fellowship building with quilts and old farm equipment: push plow, churn,
baskets, hoe, quilts on the wall, etc. The best thing we learned was using quilts
for seating kept the children in their seats; it was like a carpet square at
school. Our crafts were paired with Bible stories. Our teachers taught the
stories in a conversational style as the children worked on the crafts. We
tried to plant gospel seeds and water them well, so God will give the increase
in His time. He has already begun; one of the older girls received Christ on
the fourth night!
The old - fashioned item
that the children seemed most fascinated with was a crank butter churn. I added
raw milk, you know, cream on the top and they took turns turning every night.
Since it was just a few minutes each night we never got butter but they sure
enjoyed watching the cream and milk slosh around in the glass jar.
Planting seeds, watering
and churning butter is a lot like our lives. It is extremely rare that a person
will be saved on first hearing the gospel. It takes hearing over and over in a
period, maybe a long period, of time. But when the person finally understands
that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” and he/she is part of
“all”, then the seeds begin to take root, the cream begins to separate, the
gospel begins to take shape in that person’s heart. As a seed pushes through
soil, the seed dies and changes into a plant. As cream thickens into
butter, it separates from the milk and forms its own mass. Plants cannot become
seeds again, neither can butter separate back into the milk again. So we, as
saved people, are changed; we can never return to what we used to be.
Scripture is filled with agricultural
metaphors. It’s fun to take a few minutes here at God’s 2 Acres to see how
scripture plays out in our daily lives.
Won’t you share how God is opening your eyes to His word through your
daily life?
Father, help us not pass by Your Word in our daily lives because our
lives seem so ordinary. There is truly nothing ordinary in the world You have
created by Your own hand. Thank you, Lord for showing us the extraordinary in
our ordinary. In Jesus name, Amen.
HEY KIDS:
You may not have a butter
churn at home but you can make butter with just a few kitchen items. You will
need:
A mixer
A bowl
Some whipping cream(in
the dairy case at your grocery store)
Pour the whipping cream
into a large bowl. Place the mixer in the cream and slowly turn the speed up to
high. If you still need to stand in a chair to reach the counter, you probably
will need help with the mixer. In a few minutes, the whipping cream will become
whipped cream. If you stop here, you can add sugar and put it on some fruit for
dessert. If you whip a little longer, the whipped cream will begin to separate
and butter will form on the beaters. Pour off the now skim milk and remove the
beaters with the butter. The butter can be pressed into a small bowl. Pressing
will release the rest of the skim milk. Get mom to fix you some hot biscuits
for the butter. YUM!
If you’re small and
patient you can make butter in a jelly jar. Pour ½ cup of whipping cream into a
one cup jelly jar. Tighten the lid. Shake and shake and shake some more. When
you get tired, shake some more. If you have a brother or a sister, get them to
help shake. Mama can probably bake the biscuits while you’re making butter. It
will take 10 to 15 minutes for the whipping cream to form and then just another
minute for the butter to form. Pour off the skim milk and press the butter. Are
the biscuits ready yet?
Blessings,
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