Make Waves with Gentleness

VBS this week is learning to Make Waves (with orange/parent cue)

Read Philippians 4:5

When others look at you, what do they see?

Maybe your freckles or your dimples, or your long legs. There are things about our physical appearance that are obvious and allow others to recognize us.

What if the qualities we’ve been talking about, the things that God wants to do in us to change the world us, were as obvious as the freckles across your nose? In other words, what if your kindness, or patience or gentleness, was the first thing someone noticed about you?

Did you know that you are a representation of God? God made you in His image, and that means you can show the world what God looks like! You can “make waves” by living out the purpose God gave you—to show His light and love to everyone around you.

Just like no two people would create the same representation or picture of creation, each person can “make waves” in a different way. God may have given you a skill like drawing, painting, singing, or acting. Or maybe you’re really good at being a friend and listening to other people’s problems. Perhaps you tell amazing jokes. Whatever gift God has given you, use it to make waves and show others who God is!

Jesus was gentle. He used gentle words when He spoke. He was gentle in the way He treated His friends, the disciples, even when they didn’t understand what He was trying to do.

Sometimes being gentle is the strongest choice you can make. So here’s a question to think about: how can you be gentle in an obvious way this week?

Dear God,  Help me say gentle words to others. Help me be patient and kind.  Give me the strength not to cause harm like a tidal wave but be gentle like a small ripple through the water.  Amen