Tents

'Where are you pitching your tent?'

Have you ever slept in a tent?
What's it like?
(light , moveable, not permanent, see nature /sky)

What if there's a tent right next to yours?
It's not like a house is it... you can hear everything in the other tent and
you can hear them and even talk to them...

Danny throwing up story ..(I could help him right away 'cause even in my tent I knew what was
happening in the boy's tent)

Where are you pitching your tent?
Think about that question while I tell you this story
of a guy who lived in a tent.
His name was Lot and his uncle was Abraham, not
A. lincoln but the A. in the bible the one that God says
He is the God of A. He was a really righteous dude.

Well his nephew Lot decided it was time to move his tent away from U. Abe.

We all have to leave home someday but we have to make careful choices.
Lot made a bad decision..
Read Gen.13:10-13

Genesis 13
13:10
Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
13:11
So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord
He made the choice to move away from his Godly Uncle A and pitch his tent near the wicked city.
This really turned out horrible for him and his whole family.

We to have to make this kind of choices too...I know one guy right here in Big 5 Youth Group
who told his coach, 'I will never miss practise except for youth group.'
He knows the good choice for himself that being with believers in Jesus that want to
worship Him and learn more about Him is important.
Middle school is tough but having friends that value God and try to follow Him is
like pitching your tent in the right place.




The best place to pitch your tent is near God's heart...
the best way to do that is to get to know the One God sent


John 1
1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,
the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
That word 'dwell' there in hebrew really means pitched his tent with us! And that ONe who it's talking about is Jesus!
He came to pitch his tent with us.

Now we can choose whether or not we pitch our tent next to Him.
One way is to read the Bible...if you do read the the Gospels that's
the first 4 books of the New T. I'd start with John or maybe Mark
actually Luke is full of great stories and Matt. is wonderful.
Read them this summer...get to know Jesus and
talk to Him too about anything, make time to enjoy God.
Maybe even pitch your tent in the backyard get a flashlight
and spend the night out there with Him.








1:18
No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.