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Bible Study Lesson - Do Something
Lessons from Real Life

Matthew 10:42 offers a beautiful Bible study lesson to encourage us to do what we can, when we can as God just calls us to obey.

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Real Life Bible Study Lesson from Wedding Planning

I absolutely love how God can use ordinary things in our lives to teach us!  Now wedding planning is anything but ordinary in my life….it is new, and different, and hard!

In the beginning of the process, I was a nervous wreck because this is so outside my realm of comfort and expertise!  And although God has placed some wonderful ladies in my life that are gifted in this area, it still left me feeling ill-equipped and inadequate.

But God is teaching me!  He is showing me that there are so many areas needed to make this wedding happen!  I may not be creatively gifted in decorating or even planning an exquisite reception (I just think exquisite is such a beautiful word!), but I am seeing that other things that I am gifted in are needed as well.

I am good at listening and figuring and thinking and planning and working on a computer!  Therefore, I am able to listen to my daughter’s desires and figure out how to make them happen within our budget.  Although it may take me a lot of time figuring and thinking (sometimes I feel I waste a lot of time doing that because I have to weigh all options more than once!), it eventually allows the best options to “come out in the wash”.

I am learning to use my computer skills to put together a wedding program that incorporates my daughter’s personality and things she and her fiance’ would want to include…not just formalities.  I love to write!  And one thing my daughter wanted was to have their story for guests to read.  She hasn’t seen it yet, but I wrote her a Southern Fairytale based on their sweet story of falling in love that will give the wedding guests that may not know one of them, a little insight into who they are.

God is teaching me.  He is teaching me to stop looking at others and what I can’t do and begin doing what I can…right in front of me.  Of course, that does not apply only to this wedding, but also to daily living for His Kingdom!  I need to allow Him to use me right where He has put me, with the gifts & abilities He has given me, with the personality & person He has created me to be, and do what He has called me to do to glorify Him that others may see His love & grace!

I can do something! It may not be big and spectacular, but many times it’s the small things that can really make a difference – a smile, a hug, a note of encouragement, etc.


Bible Study Lesson - Focal Verse

Jesus said in Matthew 10:42 – “And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.”

A cup of water doesn’t seem like a big thing, but to someone who is thirsty, it is huge!  Who can we share a cup of Living Water with today?

You...right where you are with the abilities God has given you...you are important!  This world needs you and what you can give.

When I was much younger and cross-stitched, I stitched the following quote by Edward Everett Hale (many times also attributed to Helen Keller), and it stuck with me:

“I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will!”


Like me, you may feel inadequate, but God likes to use our weaknesses!  Paul said it well in 2 Corinthians 12:9-11:

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." NIV


jars of clay

Earlier in 2 Corinthians 4:7 Paul gives us a picture of what this looks like -



"But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." ESV



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God knows our weakness and our strengths.  He doesn't call us based on our abilities.  In spite of what we can or can't do, He calls us based on His ability to work through us.  He wants to use us just the way we are so others see Him!

Even Dr. Seuss shared this concept in his book,  Happy Birthday to You! 

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

God created you unique!  You matter!  So let's get out there and do what we can whether it's loving on that child, serving someone in need or being a shoulder for someone to cry on.  God wants to use us so others will see Jesus through our lives and how much they are loved too!


Music

Sometimes a song says just what we need and the music can stir our emotions. 

I love this video of Michael West’s song – “Do Something"; it gives us a great challenge!


This newer song by Mercy Me would be perfect as you finish the lesson maybe during an ending prayer time leaving a sense of encouragement as we walk this life together in victory because of Jesus!


Discussions Points

  • Think about this past week; what is something you did that God could use?
  • Think of some small ways others have impacted your life for good.  What if they had thought their actions were too small to matter and they had held back?
  • Think of at least five things you are good at; how could God use these for others to come to see God and know Jesus?  Think outside of the box.  Even if eating is one of the things we're good at, we could use that to take someone to lunch and connect in a way we can share God's love!


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