ZOOM

The theme of our 2025 VBS is ZOOM.  I ordered some supplies and passed on a few ideas.  Those teaching will have lessons.  There will be crafts, snacks, and games.  There will be excited kids and exhausted adults.

Why ZOOM?  We will help the kids ZOOM into God’s Word and God’s World to find the things they miss when they don’t look closely.  This idea is not just for kids and VBS.  Adult “kids” need to apply ZOOM when they read and study God’s Word and look at God’s World.

One time Bill and I drove by a flower farm.  It was beautiful. From one end of the field to the other, the flowers blended as one color stopped and the next began.  From the road, the flowers were pretty, but there were no details.  We could tell the flowers were gladiolus, but we couldn’t see the stems.  We couldn’t see how the colors blended slowly from a light shade at the bottom of the flower petal to a dark shade a the tips.  We had to ZOOM in to see the details.  To see their true beauty.

Sometimes we read the Bible that way.  We read as if we are in a rush to get down the road.  Or, if we are participating in a reading plan, we hurry to make up for the days we missed.  We are reading words, but not ZOOMing in on the meaning.  We miss the beauty of seeing how words tie the past to the present   We know the story so we quickly read it and miss the meaning.  We rush instead of ZOOMing deep into the verses and miss so much of what God wants to tell us.

This week, don’t fly through the Bible.  It is not a contest to see who can read the most verses.  Take time and ZOOM into the meaning.  You might find an answer to a problem or words of joy or a new direction for your life.