There's a set of books that is popular among junior high students called Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. The series follows a junior high student, Greg Heffley, through his junior high years. In the first book, Greg struggles with what I believe a lot of junior high students struggle with, wanting to be popular. Greg believes that his best friend, Rowley, is unpopular, so he begins to make Rowley look bad so that he can look good. He even lets Rowley take the blame for a mistake he made. I think it's safe to say that Greg stepped on his friend so that he could "get ahead" socially.
Have you ever stepped on anyone to try to get ahead in life? Maybe you made fun of someone who was unpopular so that you would look more popular. Or maybe you ditched a friend of yours because you thought they were bringing you down socially. I'm sorry to say, there were times when I acted like Greg, when I was mean to people because I thought it would help me be more popular. Eventually I learned, just as Greg did, that stepping on people really gets you nowhere. Sure it may look like your more successful, like your more popular, for a while. But eventually it catches up to you. It doesn't ever help to step on people, because it always seems to catch up to you eventually. Just remember, although we're still forgiven by God, we still have to answer to Him for the things that we've done.
At the end of the first book Greg, learns his lesson. After it all catches up to him, he, finally, ends up swallowing his pride, and admitting his mistake. If he had just been nice, loyal & patient, he would have seen that it would work out, that he would have been taken care of. All junior high students are welcome to join us tomorrow night at Crash as we look at someone who stepped on a few people to get ahead and what the ultimate result was. Please read 2 Samuel 20 before tomorrow night. Hope to see you all there.
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