This opened up doors for life lessons.
I told him I was disappointed in his actions because we bear the name of Christ and we are to show love to our neighbors at all times.
I could tell he was sorry. But I asked him to spend time in the WORD and find verses that could help him with this situation. Christopher is just getting comfortable reading and he has never really just sat down and look into the WORD. I give him or church teachers give him verses, but this was one of the first times he actually sat down and really looked into the WORD. These are some of the verses he found. We are going to do devotion time with these for the next few days.
(1 peter 4)
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
(James 2)
My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?
8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,”[a]you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11 For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,”[b] also said, “You shall not murder.”[c] If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.Mercy triumphs over judgment.
(John 3:16)For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believesin him will not be lost but have eternal life.
He made the statement, Mom, are you surprised I found these verses? I thought for a minute and told him "no" because God was speaking to him through the WORD. He has always been telling me he wants to hear JESUS, now he knows that if he seeks God in the WORD he will feel his presence. So even though the circumstance that came up for his at school was not pleasant (its always hard for a mom to hear that her son is not acting nice) but it really opened a door for some major spiritual growth and I hope for more lessons like this
God we give you our son Christopher Adrian Molander. We pray he really seeks you and loves you and your children. We know you have great plans for him. We love him so much.
THANK YOU SO MUCH LORD FOR SPEAKING TO HIM. I know how important it is to have GOD time and really feel your presence to make a life long impact. Keep teaching him through these life lessons.
