Possession

Last night at the Newtownabbey Development Centre, we had a guest speaker for the ‘Centre Spot’. Richard Harris came along and even joined in with the training session with the boys and girls.

Training focused on ‘possession’. The children practiced keeping possession of the ball in small teams using the simple geometry of ‘triangles’. The session then progressed by introducing a defender who applied pressure to each attacker, closing down one of their options.

Possession wasn’t only the buzz word during the training session. Richard came and spoke to the children about Luke 15, focusing specifically on the parable of the ‘Lost Son’.

Luke 15 is about possessions being LOST, but they are all FOUND. In the parable of the Lost Son, it’s the son who decides to move away, which is a picture of how we have moved away from God. The son decides to do his own thing and to ‘enjoy’ his life, his way…But soon all his money runs out and he finds himself living and eating with the pigs. The son soon realises that even at home, with his dad, there will be food and shelter, even as a servant in his fathers house would be better than where he is now. SO…the son decides to go home, and even while he was still along way off, the FATHER saw him. (because the father never stopped waiting and hoping for his son’s return) The father ran to meet his son and wrapped his arms around him and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet and ordered his servants to make a big feast, HIS SON WAS LOST BUT IS NOW FOUND.

GOD, who we have all walked away from because of our sin, He loves us and is waiting for us to come back to Him, no matter how far we have gone away from him.