By: Clint Fisher, DEAN OF STUDENTS AND FAMILIES

At Perimeter School, our mission is to partner with believing parents to provide a strong academic foundation while discipling students to think biblically and live redemptively.

At our Easter chapel last week, we introduced our students to a few topics. We want to share them with you to aid you in discipling your children as they grow into the men and women God has called them to be… 

• Even the smallest single sin completely taints us in God’s eyes. 

• Jesus offers us His perfection and takes our sin. 

• We can take our needs and desires to God. He is the one who satisfies.

How bad is sin?

Using a creative illustration (ask your kids!), we discussed that even the smallest sin still makes us repulsive to God … not because He does not love us but because He is holy. And no matter what we do, in our own efforts, we cannot undo it.

Jesus takes our sin and gives us His perfection

Jesus came to live a perfect life (ask your kids to compare Jesus and Jonah!) so that He could give that to us and take our sin and the deserved punishment.

He does not cover up our sin. He actually eliminates it … making it as if we had never sinned. God sees us as having done it all right every time. We are just called to repent and believe.

He is the One who satisfies

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy … without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.”
(Isaiah 55:1-2)

Using nutrition as an example (again, ask your kids!), we discussed how God is like a nutritious meal.

Once we have been reconciled to Him, we can take our hunger (all our needs and desires) to Him. He is the one who satisfies.

“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
(Psalm 34:8)

Reflection 

• What do we hunger and thirst for? (To be wanted, to be important, to have security, to be loved or cherished, to feel important or that we matter to someone, etc.) 

• How do we take those desires to God and His promises rather than running to the world? 

• Where are we spending our money, our time, and our energy to fill this hunger?

• Do we believe that if we listened to Him, we would delight in the “food” He provides? 

• How do we taste and see that God is good?

We pray that you have a blessed Easter and that these topics will prompt discussions about God’s great love for us. He is the one who satisfies.