He is what we need

So we are working through a series with the youth on why we believe what we believe. Last week we talked about faith and what faith means to us. Why faith is important and we are slowly working into the supremacy of God and Jesus Christ as our Savior. There is so much that young people need to know, so much that they need to believe whole heartedly. Some of them take it for granted, some of them just don't take the time to truly test the words that they hear. They take their faith like a drink and rest assured that it is in there, and then when they are tested the crumble to the ground as if it never existed.
There is a lot of danger in sharing powerful messages and golden illustrations with young people. You don't want to be so clever and so cunning that they buy into it because of that. You want to make sure they get it, they get it straight from God and you are just the messenger. In a sense you want them to get the message, not believe in the message. You want them to hold whole-heartedly onto the Word and not your words. So illustrations are nice but they are dangerous if you put too much stock in them.
Paul said it well in 1 Corinthians 2:1-2, "My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power"
Make sure your faith does not rest on anyone, any person or any thing. Make sure it rests whole heartedly on Christ. Because man will let you down every time. One of the interesting things with our teens is I asked them how many people had someone in their life that they thought of as completely reliable. Many said it was their mom or their dad. As awkward as it may seem, I then had them share what they felt like that person they had chosen's weaknesses were. What is it that they tend to be less than reliable at, where do they stumble in life and so on? They could all share more than one weakness(this is a good thing, I'm not downing parents). Believe me I let them know about more than my share of goof ups and shortcomings. It's important though that they see that there is no one on earth that they would want to put their faith in.
It truly makes us appreciate the fact that we have full faith and confidence in a GOd who never rests, who never fails us, and who is all powerful and all knowing. There is no weakness in God, no area of grey or any such thing when it comes to God and that is why we can have 100% full faith.
Believe me, outside of CHrist not one person has ever walked this earth that I could put full faith in. And believe you me, I have known some amazingly godly people in my day, not one of them is half of what I need to put my faith in.
So rest your faith in God, not in anything anyone has ever said, not on anyone you have ever met on this earth.
Thanks for reading and have a great day! Stay dry!