Fairy Tales

He already knows whether your heart is right or not. He already knows whether you are being honest with Him or hiding sin in your life, hoping that nobody can see it.

If God was to open your life right now, and let every thought or imagination of your heart, and every thing you’ve said today, or yesterday, be exposed to the whole church, and to your teachers and to your parents – how many of us would have to leave the room in shame?

You see kids, God sees it all even if nobody else does, and He is recording it all to bring it before the whole world in the Day of Judgment. He may be merciful and not let anyone else know the real you right now, but the day is coming when we will all know just who, and what you are!

As I began to ask God to give me a message to our youth, the thought came to me that we are living life as though it were only a fairy tale and not the real thing.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it is true. If we really lived life as though it was real, we wouldn’t be playing around with sin, and we wouldn’t be wasting time with things that don’t matter, and our whole value system would be different.

Most kids don’t think much of what life is really all about anyway. Most of you are caught up in the day-to-day things of being a teenager and you really don’t give much thought of what tomorrow may bring. But how many teenagers who are alive today will not see tomorrow? How many will have to face God, just as they are right now?

How many are running this race of life and don’t realize that they are traveling, as fast as they can, toward the brink of eternity. The road ends at the edge of a cliff just ahead. It doesn’t go on forever. When will you hit the top of the next hill and fly off into eternity? When will your race be over? Only God has that answer and He won’t tell you when it will be. He just says to be ready all the time.

While I was thinking about living life as a fairy tale, and running the race of life the way we should, the Lord seemed to bring my attention to another fairy tale race that you have all heard about. I want to look at that fairy tale and see what God has to say to all of us, and especially the youth who are here tonight.

The fairy tale is called, The Tortoise and the Hare”. Let me read it for you. It won’t take long.

Once there was a Hare who used to laugh at a Tortoise because he plodded along so slowly. "You never can get anywhere with those short legs of yours. Look at my long legs! They’re so swift no one would dare race me."

All the animals of field and forest were tired of hearing the Hare brag. But none of them would dare race him because he was so fast. At last the Tortoise had enough and said, "If we were to run a race, I’m sure I would beat you."

The animals were astonished for they knew the Tortoise was the slowest of them all, and the Hare, laughing out, said, "What a joke! That slowpoke tortoise thinks he can beat me! Come on, Tortoise, you shall see what my feet are made of. Why I can beat you before you are even half way!"