Week 2 2011

Day 3 Week 2

Day 2 Week 2
Mud pies, chicken w/rice and green beans sounds like a great day at camp!

We are swinging our way into week 2 at TC! All is well on on first full day. Campers enjoyed Rifle and survival skills today. It was a hot one today with the heat index reaching 105 so you can imagine how welcome the sound of going swimming was this afternoon. The rope swing is a favorite.

Reading in 2 Kings yesterday and learned of Ahaziah who sent some messengers to inquire of a false God called Baal of Ekron. You see, he had fallen in his house and evidently was injured bad enough in the fall that he feared he would die. In his anxiety he sent these messengers to travel and inquire of this false God as to what the future might hold. At the same time, the Lord spoke to Elijah and told him to intercept the messengers of Ahaziah and ask them "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?". We encounter different struggles each week at camp. They can be as little as no breeze and 100 degree weather, a homesick camper, a scraped knee, or an a/c unit going out. I can hear the word of the Lord speaking to me when I try to handle even the smallest things without coming to him first. "Is it because there is no God at Tracy's Camp that you are trying to handle this on your own?" Why would we not go before the Lord? I stand convicted.

On Sunday evening as we headed to the "Big Oak" to worship the air was still and muggy. I thought of Ahaziah and the words that Elijah had spoken to him and thus to me. I prayed to the Lord for a breeze to break the heat as we would begin to worship. Just know that their is a God at Tracy's Camp! He indeed hears our prayers! Thank you Lord for such a cool breeze. You are so gracious.