What More?

                                 Verses: Matthew 19:16-18 (Story also found in Luke 18) 

                              What More?

Okay guys....and gals, I am going to try to type out one of our Jesus times tonight. I am definitely not Amber, but hopefully I can get this all down right.

Our scripture for tonight is the story of the rich young ruler. Yes, I know it doesn't call him that in any one part of the story but if you read the story in each gospel, he is described as all three of those things.

The part we focused on tonight was the young man's response to Jesus when Christ told the young ruler that he would need to follow the commandments if he expected to go to heaven. The young man replied, "Which?"

Isn't that what we do sometimes? Jesus gives us an answer and we ask "Which?" instead of "What more?". In other words, how little can I get by with and still make it?

So we played football. Paper football. On the table. But first we made some rules. Nine to be exact. Probably it would have been nice to make it an even ten, but nine is what we had. The number is not really important as long as you have seven or eight at least.

What is important is what came next. All nine rules were enforced on one child, with care taken to make sure he was the less emotional one :). Five of the rules were enforced on the other child. Needless to say, the score quickly became quite lopsided. When the child who was being held to all the rules (and losing) complained, we asked "What's wrong? He is following all five of these rules."

We talked about how it is important to follow all of God's commands. It is easy for us to think sometimes that we are not hurting anybody. But the truth is when we don't follow God's command or rules, we are cheating somebody. And that's not right.



Challenge: Lord help me not to ask "Which?". Rather, let my heart daily ask "What more?"

Disclaimer: The devotions/lessons recorded on this blog are an attempt to make "hiding God's word in our hearts" a fun and inspiring time in our home. Most of the posts are recorded by Amber, and are from her point of view, often referring to "B" or "Brandon," who is her hubby. :)