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In This Home, We Acknowledge That Jesus Died and Rose Again for Us Daily.

Read:  

Ephesians 2:8-9

Play:

Paper airplane competition! Put out a stack of paper, art supplies, scissors, tape and go to town. 

Important: You need to set a distance goal for these planes that is unreachable, even if it doesn’t look like it right away.

Feel free to define other rewards, i.e., most creative, fastest, most colorful, etc., but the unreachable goal is the focus.

Talk it out:

Okay, we rigged today’s competition. The goal was impossible, no matter how cool an airplane you built. I want to use this to make a point. 

You’ve probably heard the verse telling us, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). You just saw your planes fall short of the goal; even the best, the fastest and the snazziest. 

Most of us agree that Jesus dying for us and being raised from the dead is something we need to know so we can be saved. But do we really need to hear about it all the time? What’s the big deal? 

This is actually a message we need to tell ourselves every day.

When we don’t really believe that God loves us enough to die for us, it leaves a hole in our hearts. We become like human vacuums, sucking up things to try and fill the hole. We try to be special or holy, sweet, smart, safe, popular, powerful or in control enough to feel good about ourselves as if we’re in a competition to be good enough, like our paper airplanes. 

But when we remind ourselves that Jesus loves us, we can put down all our paper airplanes that will never fly close enough. Jesus did the impossible work of being completely, 100% perfect. He lets us share in the prize He won. We don’t have to keep trying to be people who are worthy or good enough. 

That’s why Jesus’ death and resurrection are the good news we have to be reminded of every day. Jesus’ death tells us, "Have peace. I have already won. Everything good you do should be to honor me, not to show the world you’re okay."  

When do you some times feel that you are not good enough? What do you sometimes do to make yourself feel better?

In those times, what’s one truth from God’s Word you can remind yourself of?

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