Seventh-Day Adventist Devotional For Children: “Boasting In The Wrong Things”

DAILY BREAD – A DEVOTIONAL FOR CHILDREN

EASTERN NIGERIA UNION CONFERENCE CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES

Friday, May 12, 2023

TOPIC: BOASTING IN THE WRONG THINGS

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, the one should have his father’s wife for I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit have judged already, as though I were present, concluding him that hath so done this deed…In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, whom ye are gathered together, and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthian 5:1, 3-4)

The world is full of immorality. As Christians we are not to boast about how loving we were in how we tolerated this person in the church.
We cannot forget the grace of God in our lives. The grace of God means that no one is beyond God’s ability to save them. This person could repent and turn from their sin and find forgiveness and love from God because Jesus took the penalty of sin on the cross.
Paul tells us that the big need of reconciliation and faith in God was more important than this man being affirmed in his sinful life.
In all things, we should not think that God’s grace gives us a free pass or license to sin but for Christians to confront sin and to find change and transformation in Christ.

THOUGHT FOR REFLECTION
God’s grace is for everyone and can change and transform our lives. Do we boast in our wrong doings? Or Do we give our best to the master?

SONG
Give of your best to the master
Give of the strength of your youth
Through your soul’s fresh, glowing order into the battle for truth
Jesus has set the example
Dauntless was he, young and brave,
Give him your loyal devotion
Give him the best that you have

PRAYER
Heavenly father, thank you for giving us your grace which is sufficient to save us. Help us not to boast in our wrong doings but teach us every step we take every day in Jesus name, Amen.