"Kingdom of Heaven"

I could sit and listen to my kids sing all day long. Sunday church is always a good wake up call for me. In America, worship is usually very stiff. You're subject to one spot in your pew and you don't move. Here it is much much different. We had kids dancing, jumping and clapping all over the place. There wasn't a person in the room that didn't have a smile on their face. It makes my heart happy to see kids joining together to have church. The pastor didn't show up to church yesterday but Boakai decided to have church anyways.

Boakai taught on Matthew 25: 14-30, The Parable of the Talents. A parable that awakened a lot of the minds of these kids, and myself as well.

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and his his masters' money.” (Matthew 25:14-18)

I believe that this is a great example of a lot of our faith today. We get so caught up in knowing the bible front to back, that knowing the bible is all we really care about. Just hiding the words of the Bible with no action won't do anybody any good. Especially to those who are lost. To those who are hurting. Those who need to see Jesus in us. We have become so afraid. We have allowed ourselves to have little faith.

“Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'' (Matthew 25:19-21)

“He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him, 'You wicked and lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'” (Matthew 25:24-30)

Moses had asked why this parable was compared to the Kingdom of heaven. The floor was open for discussion, so I answered! Parables in the bible are all for teaching us lessons, for now and the future. When I get to heaven I want God to say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” I want this for all of my kids as well. I want them to use the gifts that God gives them wisely. To become disciples and to multiply what God has given them. I might not be the smartest person by the worlds standard or even by the church's standard. But I do believe I am being wise and productive with my God-given abilities to further the Kingdom. I may not know the Bible as well as most people, but I am being obedient and I am acting on my faith.

“God, I pray that these kids will be doers of the Word. That their actions with allow God's glory to shine. That they will go to bed every night knowing that they tried their hardest. I pray that everyone will know Mother Blessings home as a place where Jesus' name shines, when our names don't matter.”