When Sin Entered In

"Out of the mouth of babes . . ." - Psalm 8:2

This was VBS week at our church. Vacation Bible School is something I never experienced as a kid. But you know, I kind of wish I did. It's absolutely wonderful!

Our church uses the Answers In Genesis curriculum. They come up with great ways to entertain the kids, but also ways to get them thinking. About Jesus.

I teach the junior age group (ages 9-12) which is great. My own grandchildren have trained me well for how to relate to them. However, this week one of the children taught ME something. And it's not good.

Our lesson for Tuesday was about Corruption - one of the "Seven C's" in the AIG lesson plan. Corruption came to the human race when Satan tempted Adam and Eve in The Garden of Eden.

As part of that day's lesson, each child was given some Play-Doh and told to make something that represents the sin and evil that resulted from Satan successfully tempting Eve.

Most of the older boys made snakes. Simple, easy, fun to scare the girls with. I walked around inspecting all of their works. That's when one of the Team Leaders motioned for me to come over.

"Look what Jimmy is making."

"What the heck is that?!" I asked.

Jimmy had made a ball and was pinching at it with his fingers; making little peaks all over it. Jimmy held it up for me to see and said, "It's a Covid molecule."

"A what?!"

What have we done to our children? What kind of world do we live in where we create bioweapons to kill other humans?

The Bible tells us in the Book of Romans that we have all become "inventors of evil," and right it is.

"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil." - Romans 1:29-30

Romans 1 goes on to say that . . .

"Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Romans 1:32

Our children, who were ages 4-6 years old when Charlie Vector Oh One Niner hit, have been both scared and scarred.

It's like Alec Guinness at the end of the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai.

"What have we done?"

Thank God, we have a Savior - Jesus - who takes away the sins of this fallen world. John the Baptist introduced is to Him.

"The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" - John 1:29

What Have I Done - The Bridge On The River Kwai