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097 - The Balancing Act

Sunday School Activity Sheet: 097 - The Balancing Act

tags: pleasing the Lord, pleasing the world, worldly, godly, godliness, worldliness, tempted, serving both masters, temptation, Daily Nibbles, james, james 1

handout id: 4270
short name: 097 - The Balancing Act
nutshell: Don't be a double minded

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The Balancing Act

Here's something to do...in your imagination.

Find a clear stretch of footpath and draw two chalk circles on it, close together, and a bit larger than your feet. Now stand with one foot in each circle.

Now imagine that one circle is called "What Pleases Jesus" and the other circle is called "What Pleases the World". Do you feel slightly silly, trying to stand in both circles at the same time?

Well, nobody is perfect, so even the best Christians will admit that they never get it right all the time! But what about those times when we are tempted to go for the world's approval, even when we know it doesn't please Jesus?

For example, when we are tempted by our friends to try a cigarette? And what about the time our friends start to swear, so we think we'd better swear a bit too, just so our "friends" don't think we're different from them? We could go on.

God loves us, and He always wants us to be standing with both feet in the "What Pleases Jesus" circle...but it isn't always easy to do this. We may try all our lives and never quite get there.
The main thing is we are trying!

The Bible says, "Double minded people are unstable in all their ways."
James 1:8
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