Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;
Lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your descendants will possess nations and will resettle the desolate cities.
Isaiah 54:2-3
Our theme for VBS is “GO BIG!” –it comes from the verse above. Fear tries to keep us in small places that feel safe, but in the end those small places rob us of the future that God has in mind. So God is inviting us out of fear and into faith.
When I am stretching into the BIG place God has for me, I get nervous that I won’t have enough to cover. I am afraid that in the end, I’ll look silly for having stepped up. But what I (and many others) are discovering is that God is meeting us in those places, and that when we go BIG, He goes BIGGER!
Let's join our faith together and each offer those places that we need God's BIGNESS to cover our smallness. Let's not wait until we feel ready to say, "YES!" Let's not let our boundaries be defined by our fears, but by our faith! Let's believe that best and encourage the most in one another (and agree to cover each other when we do fall short)! Our kids ("descendants") will reap the reward of our faith and courage, and those hopes that seem forever lost ("desolate cities") will be rebuilt!
For those of you who won't be able to join us physically, we are going to LIVE stream our VBS Assemblies. Monday through Friday next week, you can tune in at 9:15am and 12:45pm, and again on Friday night at 6:15pm for our Grand Assembly. You can use either of these links: Facebook or directly on Ustream.
