(Today, I bring a change of focus to my blog. I pray that my studies help to encourage everyday communication about God with others and especially children. Let’s know Him more. Love Him greater, and be able to share Him daily. Toni)
Today, we, adults and children, need to put on our tables a cornucopia of sorts. Or at least imagine that we do, so we can talk about God. He’s like a cornucopia.
A cornucopia speaks of abundance. It’s horn-shaped object that overflows with fruits and nuts, odd gourds, and ears of corn.
It’s known as a “horn of plenty” of different shapes, colors, and flavors overflowing. We need to remind ourselves and those around us, and especially the kids, to get our eyes up and our ears ready.
We must “blow the horn of plenty” so to speak of God’s multi-shaped, colored, and flavored shades of provision and love.
He said, “Let there be light.” And there was light.
In thinking about only one aspect of His creation we become awed.
Without light, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the many shades of color and beauty around us. God gave us a spectrum of color: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet all within His glorious light.
We have so much to be thankful for. Especially that God is light.
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5.
What great news this is. Light of the world has come.
We live in a world with much darkness.
We know this in our hearts.
The kids need to know that we all have the desire to do wrong. To want to lie about eating the cookie. To want to cheat on the job being done.
Temptation is a part of all of our days. There are not good people and bad people. All people have sin.
Sin came before Chapter 3 in the Bible. You turn the first page, and can read the fall of man. Man disobeyed God. (Gen. 3). We have a problem. All of us do!
But we can choose God. We can be hungry, just like reaching for some of the fruits and nuts in the cornucopia we can reach to know Him more, to love Him more.
Seekers of God. Find.
When we want to know God, He tells us about His Son. Jesus died for all the sins of the world. When we believe on His Son, God hands us His sweet Salvation.
Salvation through Jesus takes our dark hearts and cleanses them clean for all eternity.
Drawing near to God brings God near to us. Maybe we can make a rainbow of color to remember a cornucopia of gifts God gives.
Red, can be for God’s love through Jesus, His Son whose blood was shed on the cross.
Orange can be for God’s joy.
Yellow the color of mercy can help us have peace.
Green can be a color for growing in happiness as the Good News transforms.
Blue, the color of the glorious sky can remind us of God’s gift through believing in Jesus: Eternal life,.
And Violet can remind us of royal thoughts that come from continual help and filling of the Holy Spirit.
Thankfulness comes when we take time to think of our colorful riches from God.
A cornucopia of color and abundance fills us up with riches that never change. A spectrum of love, joy, peace, and growing happiness in eternal life, as the Holy Spirit helps us remember, time and again.
Think on a good theme this thanksgiving, and talk of a “horn of plenty” of glorious colors that His light brings.
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and decisions and how unfathomable and untraceable are His ways! . . .
For from Him [all things originate] and through Him [all things live and exist] and to Him are all things [directed].
To Him be glory and honor forever! Amen” Romans 11:33-36, Amplified.
“Dear Lord help us talk about you more and more in our everyday lives.”
In Jesus name,
Amen.