From Kaleb our BIBLE DUDE!
This is it, after 12 weeks of us on a mission to “Fly and Glorify” Summer Camp 2024 has come to an end. We are definitely sad to see these kids go, but more than excited for them to start this next chapter in life. Some are going up just one grade, and others are going from the oldest kid to the youngest as they start middle school. Whatever it may be, I hope that they feel encouraged going into this school year and throughout it knowing there is a God who loves them and is here to help them…
Romans 8:31-39
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This whole summer we have learned so much about loving one another, and just like any good high school essay, at the end the best thing is a “Call for Action”. So that’s what went behind picking this verse. “Let all that you do be done in love” 1 Corinthians 16:14. And how do we do this? Simple, we look at how Jesus loved others. His closest friends, the disciples were all sinners yet he loved them and guided them and provided for them. Jesus knew Judas was to betray Him yet that did not stop Him from choosing Him as a follower or friend. Jesus responded to the needs of those who were suffering, such as healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, and freeing those who were bound by social injustice or demonic powers. Jesus respected all of life, including women and children. Jesus was willing to sacrifice his life for people, suffering and dying on the cross so that people could join him in heaven. God is love, and we know what love is because Christ lives in us…
1 John 4:7-12
God’s Love and Ours
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
With that, this may be the last time we talk for a little while. So I ask not just for the kids but for everyone who reads this, “let us love one another”. God loves us so much, so let God be known through our actions so others who may not know Jesus may see that love. It has been a real pleasure serving this summer as “Bible Dude” and I am so grateful for this job and all of the fruit I was able to witness through it. It has been truly such a blessing to work here at RSA, I am very sad that the summer is coming to a close. However, this gives us something to look forward to next year! But now it is time for us to shift gears for the school year, so I hope everyone is able to “Let all that you do be done in love” 1 Corinthians 16:14 and have a Rock Solid year!