"What Really Matters!"

“What Really Matters!” 

 

 

Allie was eight years old, and she was an only child, she didn’t have any brothers or sisters.  One day Allie’s mom told her they would be moving to another state and she would be leaving her friends, but she would make new friends.  Allie wasn’t happy about the news.

When they moved and got settled, Allie’s mom took her to her ‘new’ school.  Now Allie had thought and thought about how she could make new friends.  She came up with what she thought was a great idea.  She would tell everybody how good she was at everything and they would always want her on their team, and always want her to be their friend.  So that was exactly what she did, but it didn’t exactly turn out the way she thought it would.

Allie was always wanting to be FIRST in EVERYTHING, and even though she told them she could do EVERYTHING, they quickly found out that she couldn’t do EVERYTHING.  So whenever the kids were playing games, and saw Allie coming, they would run away from her, and instead of her having lots of friends, she had NO friends.

On her birthday, Allie’s mom planned a big party with lots of food, games and Allie’s favorite birthday cake, a yellow cake with a sweet, yummy, milk chocolate frosting. 

So Allie handed out invitations to all of her classmates, but nobody came to her party.  Allie was so sad, she cried and cried.  “Nobody likes me!”  Even after I told them how good I am at EVERYTHING, they don’t even want to be my friend!”  She cried.  Allie’s mom hugged Allie, “You know Allie, you are good at doing somethings, but NOBODY is good at doing EVERYTHING!  God has made us all with different abilities.  Some can run faster than others, some can throw a ball farther than others, some can sing better, some are better at drawing pictures than others.  We are all different, because that’s the way God made us and wants us to be.  I think if you go back to school and be yourself, and don’t brag about being better than anyone else, before long you’ll have lots of friends.” Her mom said. 

So Allie took her mom’s advice and some things Allie was good at and some things she wasn’t so good at.  But Allie was happy being just the way God wanted her to be, and she ended up with lots of good friends.

 

Ephesians 2:10 says, “We are God’s workmanship.  Created to do the good works that God has prepared for us to do.”