Flookburgh Primary School

The final assembly of the day was at Flookburgh Primary School.  It was good to see all the children at the school again so after saying hello I introduced the first song So Many Ways to Praise the Lord.  Then I displayed a number of optical illusions and asked the children what if anything they could see.  We had a multi-legged elephant, an old women or a young lady, a moving snake or was it still?  Lines that looked as if the would meet but could they?  I explained that sometimes we see things that are not really there or we think we see things.  Samuel was a little bit like that when he went to see Jesse to anoint one of his sons as King of God's people.  Samuel looked at the first 7 sons and thought that anyone of them would be the right one but all the time God was looking on the inside of them at their heart.  Finally David came forward and God told Samuel that the young lad was to be the King.  I used the Lion Storyteller Bible and a lot of ad-lib to tell the story.  I explained that what we see as people is not what God sees because he can look inside of us and see what we are thinking and feeling.  We might think someone is good because they look good but deep down they might be bad.  However we should Shine from the inside out which was a cue for a song.  After the song I closed the assembly with a prayer.