This past weekend The Levi Youth Group started a new series focused on Worship. The lesson was focused on how society and commercials can draw us into activities and desiring materialistic things to make us feel happy, good about ourselves. Having these "idols" God then gets minimized in our daily lives when he is the only one that can bring us true joy, peace and satisfaction.
To illustrate this, each leader set up a room with items they have worshipped in the past. Elena was prostrate before her books and papers as the youth entered. She then shared her testimony on how she fell into worshipping academic excellence while she was in college. Paco had an alter to tools and work. As a young man he learned he needed to work hard to make a living and it was priority in his life. Kike surrounded himself with all his soccer memorabilia. He emerged himself in reviews, stats, and played every spare moment he had.
The youth then watched a video clip on society and when we consider it, people are worshipping cars, money, music idols etc. Now while all these things do not seem evil, the point was that it is easy to lose our focus on things other than God. Many of the youth as they walked from each class were already discussing amongst themselves some of their possible idols. As they heard their leaders, who they knew love and worship God, testify how they had been consumed with other things, they knew it is easily possible for us all. During this series we all pray awareness will be made and if there are any idols in our lives, we will throw them out and return to the true worship of our Saviour Jesus Christ.
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