CRU

Who is your leader? Who is the one you look to for guidance regarding your decisions? These are important questions to consider, as we discovered at CRU last Friday. 

We began our meeting with an interview of Old Boy Harry Roberts (’15), who spoke of his time working at the organisation CRU before moving into accounting. He helpfully reminded us of the importance of continuing to gather as a Christian community, continuing to read the Bible frequently and being eager and willing to serve the Lord. 

We then heard our Bible reading from 1 Samuel 8 before Mr Kellahan presented God’s Word to us. Continuing from the story of last week, we continued to reflect on the leadership of the people. Samuel was old and his sons were leading Israel, but they did not follow God’s ways. At this time, Israel asks for a king to be like the other nations. The only problem was that they were not like other nations – they were God’s chosen people who he had rescued from slavery in Egypt and whom he had led and protected faithfully. Despite this, Israel rejected God as their king and wanted a human king. After praying to the Lord, Samuel warned the people what it would be like to have an earthly king, but they insisted, and God allowed it. Despite all this, has God abandoned Israel and stopped being their king? We see in the next few chapters that God is still powerfully at work to make Saul Israel’s first king, showing us that God always has a plan and never abandons his people.  

In the same way, God had a plan for humanity just as he did for Israel despite all of us also rejecting God and going our own way away from God. God sent the ultimate king, his Son Jesus who came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for the sins of many. Is Jesus your leader and king?  

We will be continuing through the book of 1 Samuel in the second half of Term 3.  

Daniel Becker 
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