The Lightbulb

We have all had those moments of enlightenment when, all of a sudden, we actually get it. Maybe it was the first time that someone said "I love you" or when we first realized that God is real. The lightbulb goes on and we become changed.

I got to witness one of those "lightbulb moments" this week in the eyes of a 12-year-old girl named Savana. I have known this pre-teen kid for ten whole days now. She is a student in one of the disc golf classes I teach. When we first met she was the stereotypical kid - shy, quiet, self-conscious and awkward . . . with glasses.

Savana couldn't throw very well in our first class but in class number two something happened. Something clicked and the lightbulb came on.

The class that day was about different ways to throw a disc. Discs were flying everywhere and I do mean everywhere! We got around to a throw called "the flick roller" and for Savana, that was her lightbulb moment. She could really throw those things! She was throwing them better than the football guy standing next to her!

You should have seen her smile. Her confidence level soared. A smile came to her face that never left. She was experiencing joy in the knowledge that she actually was GOOD at something.

Do you remember how you felt when you first came to faith in Christ? That moment when you first came to believe? The knowledge that God chose you! Even though you were awkward and felt unworthy.

None of us measures up to God's high standard of perfection. But Jesus did! It is through our faith in Jesus and His substitutionary sacrifice on our behalf that MAKES us good enough. Doesn't that bring a smile to your face? Doesn't that lift your confidence? It should! Because we are all children of God!

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise." - Galatians 3:26-29

I Will Come Back Stronger - Paige Shue
Forehand Rollers - Eric Oakley