One of my all time favorite VBS songs happens to be "Little Red Box." Look at the lessons we can learn all from this simple song!
If I had a little red box to put my good friends in,
I'd take them out and play with them and put them back again.
Look at the advice we get from God's word dealing with friends or friendship:
- Make no friendship with a man given to anger,nor go with a wrathful man,or you will learn his ways and find a snare for yourself.Proverbs 22:24-25
- Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him up.Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
- This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. John 15:12-15
- A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.Prov 17:17
I didn't even begin to touch what is in God's Word about friends/friendship. Does it matter who your friends are? Do they make good choices? Are they rubbing off on you for the good or for the "not so good." Look again at John 15: 12-15. Are you friends with the best friend you could have in the WHOLE WORLD??
If I had a little red box to put my enemies in,I'd take them out and pray for them and put them back again.
Look at Stephen (Acts 6:8-15, 7:1-60)..this is one of the stories we are studying just this week!
Here is a man that was full of faith and power and did great wonders and signs among the people so that they would know this was of God (v. 8) but ended up being accused of blaspheme. He continued to teach...staying steadfast in his faith...even though he knew he was facing a "tough" crowd that eventually stones him to death. But you know, the story doesn't stop here. As they were stoning him , he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." (Acts 7:60) WOW! Do you do that for your enemies? Do you pray for them? Do you ask God to forgive them? It is HARD to! Someone crosses you, you don't want anything to do with them, right? But is that what we are taught? No, and we had an even greater example of this when Jesus died on the cross because what did he say? "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." (Luke 23:34)
If I had a little red box to put the devil in,
I'd take him out and beat him up and put him back again.
Peter warns us in 1 Peter 5:8 about the devil. "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."
Read what I mentioned before in the Shield post:
WOW! Is God your shield? Everyday we are faced with temptation. I recently read in a book that the devil has over 27 names in the New Testament. Does that not scare you? That sure doesn't sit well with me. We are up against an enemy who is always lurking over our shoulder. Jesus even calls him the wicked one (Matthew 13:19), the enemy (Matthew 13:39), Beelzebub (Mark 3:22), strong one Luke 11:22), murderer (John 8:44), father of lies (John 8:44), and prince of this world (John 12:31).
If I had a little red box to put my Jesus in,
I'd take him out and never put Him back, and never put Him back again.
Have you put on Christ? Look at Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:6, 26-40. An angel speaks to Philip telling him to go to the road between Jerusalem and Gaza and he did without arguing. There he finds a eunuch in a chariot reading from the book of Isaiah (53:7) and he asks him who Isaiah was talking about. Philip begins to teach him about Jesus. The eunuch knew from Philip's teaching that he needed to be baptized so as they came upon a body of water, he asked to be! Philip then said to him, "If you believe with all your heart you may," and what did the eunuch say? I BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD and he was then baptized!
All these lessons we learn from one simple song...I have a challenge for you this week. Take the song "This Little Light of Mine" and see how they apply to your life, much like "Little Red Box."
This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine, let it shine all the time let it shine.
Don't let Satan (blow) it out, I'm going to let it shine. Don't let Satan (blow) it out, I'm going to let it shine, let it shine all the time let it shine.
Hide it under a bushel, NO! I'm going to let it shine. Hide it under a bushel, NO! I"m going to let it shine, let it shine all the time let it shine.
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