We're back! Let the second half begin! No Second Half slump here! The First Half is so busy that it is hard to comprehend that we could keep it going in the Second Half but we are up to the challenge!
First off Congrats to GeRRald! GeRRald has won two out of the last three Helmets! Max and Jordan were there at the end of Bulldog but GeRRald would not be denied! Props to Jake B. (grade 7) who had to start in the middle for Bulldog, never an easy task!
After being down for month (that is besides Alumni Night) it feels good to throw balls again at each other! I don't think I will ever get tired of Murderball! The first game was one of the longer games we have played in a while. I could feel the momentum slipping away even though we pulled out the victory in the first game. Bent's team came back and beat us (literally) the next five games. Even though it was never close again it was still Murderball, so much fun!
This week we got back into our year long series, "The History of the World" or "His Story". Saul and David, the first two kings of Israel were the focus this week.
1 Samuel 8:4-7 So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have.” But when they said, “Give us a king to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the Lord. And the Lord told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Why would the nation of Israel want to be like all the other nations? Why would they reject God as their king? The question is are we any different? No matter how many good things God has done for us we still want to be like "all the other nations".
Samuel warns the people that a king would bring all kinds of the problems but they don't care.
1 Samuel 8:19-20 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
Why would they want a king to fight their battles when they had God?
God's response?
God's response?
1 Samuel 10:17-19 Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the Lord at Mizpah and said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ But you have now rejected your God, who saves you out of all your calamities and distresses. And you have said, ‘No, set a king over us.’
God picks a king for the people and where is he? Hiding in the baggage! This is the one that will save them?
1 Samuel 10:21-24 Finally Saul son of Kish was chosen. But when they looked for him, he was not to be found. So they inquired further of the Lord, “Has the man come here yet?” And the Lord said, “Yes, he has hidden himself among the baggage.” they ran and brought him out, and as he stood among the people he was a head taller than any of the others. Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the man the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” Then the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
The people were not worried that Saul was hiding because they were so impressed by his size!
Saul is a failure as a king and his replacement is picked this time by God's standards and not by what the people will be looking for!
1 Samuel 16:6-7 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed stands here before the Lord.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
God does not pick Eliab (David's older brother.) he picks David the youngest of eight brothers.
Acts 13:22 After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’
We would be so much better off if we would leave God in charge!
We would be so much better off if we would leave God in charge!
Next week we are back at the gym! Where else would we go? Bring a friend!
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