Tonight we started our four week series called: The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race is a tv show in which contestants race across the world. The start the journey, along the way they encounter Road Blocks and Detours before reaching their ultimate end of the journey called the Pit Stop. Tonight we discussed starting the journey. We did this by looking at the story of Israel from the book of Exodus. In Exodus we see a group, called Israel, that has been living in Egypt for 430 years under slavery. God sends a man named Moses to free them from slavery. In order to do this, God sends 10 plagues on the Egyptians. The final plauge was one which killed all the first born sons of Egypt. After the plague the Pharoah agreed to let Israel go, effectivly freeing them from slavery from Egypt, but they had become slaves to God, following his leading from that point on. At least that was the idea.
We too are enslaved by things. Some of us are slaves to sin, some to our addictions, some of us are slaves to our own passions and desires. We struggle under this slavery, groaning for freedom. God has heard our cries for freedom and desires to set us free. How do we gain this freedom? We allow him to become our new master, a master that loves and cares for us rather than abusing us. We ask him to forgive us for serving our old master and start to serve him instead. You can have freedom, you can start your Amazing Race, this journey with God, by allowing him to become your king.
I give tonight: A-
Favorite Moment: Cole asking if dough meant money or bread
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