Oh The Places You'll Go!

 

Reading of "Oh The Places You'll Go 

"Congratulations!  Today is your day! 

You're off to great places! 

You're off and away! 

~ Oh The Places You'll Go by Dr. Suess

It's that time of year - hundreds of thousands are graduating from preschool through college and Dr. Seuss wrote a primary book that applies to each one of these levels - it's really quite genius.

🎓 Touching on some of the conceptual highlights, as always we sift them through God's Word...

🎓 "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes" -

"So prepare your minds for actions and exercise self-control.  Put all your hope in the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world." 
1 Pet 1:13

🎓 "You can steer yourself any direction you choose"; avoid the 'not so good street'. 

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own
understanding.  Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you
which path to take." Prov 3:5-6

🎓 When you "head straight out of town", you're told to "go right along" and you'll start "happening".  You'll join the "high-fliers who soar to great heights"

"Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God 

transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which

is good and pleasing and perfect." Rom 12:1-2

🎓 Sometimes you "soar to high heights",  be "the best of the best" and "top all the rest".

"For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Phil 4:13

🎓  Sometimes, though, when you're not at the top, you'll get in a "great slump" because of the "bang-ups and hang-ups" and have to "unslump" yourself. "Or you get to a place where the streets are not marked" and you have to make choices.

"Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, 

consider it an opportunity for great joy.  For you know that when your faith

is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.  So let it grow, for when

your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete,

needing nothing." James 1:2-4

🎓 You get confused and go down "weirdest wild spaces" or to the "Waiting Place". But you'll want to escape to where "boom bands are playing".

"God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation.

Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised

to those who love Him" James 1:12

🎓 "There is fun to be done",  some will lead to being "the winningness winner of all".

"Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." Ps 37:4

🎓 But sometimes you "play the lonely game", and "meet things that scare you right out of your pants".  But on you go even when "the Hakken-Kraks howl".

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power,

love and self-discipline." 2 Tim 1:7

🎓 And "you'll get mixed up with many strange birds" so be careful.  Don't "mix up your right foot with your left".

"Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of
fools suffers harm." Prov 13:20

🎓 "Your mountain is waiting, go get on your way." You will move mountains.  

"I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed,
you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move."
Matt 17:20

🎓 "Today is your day!"

"This is the day that the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." Ps 118:24

✙ Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You for the graduates in our lives, celebrations and fresh starts.  You are our Heavenly Father who gives us good things, and we only need to ask You.  Thank You for the joy this brings; help us to dedicate our paths to You as we seek You for guidance in all things.  Amen.