The Professor, Shane, and Shelly were on their way to adventures in the flying bus! The Professor was hoping to find God! He knew a lot about God but did not know God personally. This adventure was the Professor’s Quest for God!
Last time the Professor, Shane and Shelly had discovered the beauty of nature and learned that nature is not to be worshipped, but nature is made to point to God, the Creator of all things. Nature is so awesome; it could not have just happened by chance!
The flying bus (which was also the Professor’s house) was at the bottom of the mountain, Shane, Shelly, and the Professor were in the flying bus, but the angry beaver was on the hood of the bus! It was time to take off for their next adventure, but how could they get the beaver off the hood? The Professor had an idea, while Shane tossed food to the beaver the Professor would climb out one of the bus windows and sneak up behind the beaver and push him off the hood of the bus and back into the pond. Shane got out some cheese balls and tossed one to the beaver. The beaver did not eat the cheese ball, he smacked it with his tail, and it flew into the pond. Shane threw another cheese ball and the beaver hit this one too. The beaver hit five cheese balls into the pond, this gave the Professor time to sneak up behind the beaver. The beaver saw the Professor coming, and he smacked the Professor in the head with his tail, the Professor said, “Ooops!” The beaver hit the Professor again and again with his tail until the Professor fell into the pond! The beaver jumped off the hood of the bus, bounced on the Professor’s head and splashed into the water and began to eat cheese balls! The Professor said, “Ooops”!
The Professor, Shane and Shelly finally got the flying bus started and the propeller on the roof lifted them off the ground. Shelly asked, “Where should we go now?” The Professor answered, “I think we should south.” Shane asked, “Which way is south? Remember the compass does not have a needle.” The Professor said, “Birds fly south in the winter, there goes a bird, let’s follow that bird!” Shelly said, “But Professor, it is June and winter is a long way away.” The Professor was not listening, he pushed one of the heavy boxed to the right side of the bus, and the bus began to turn right and follow the bird.
A few hours later the flying bus flew into a cloud of dust! There was dust everywhere, Shane and Shelly were sneezing, and the Professor said, “Ooops!” All the dust was coming from the field below them, there was a farmer working in that field. The Professor decided land the flying bus and see what the farmer was doing, so he turned off the front propeller and slowed down the propeller on the roof and the flying bus slowly landed in the field. Of course, the big propeller on the roof of the bus blew dust all over the farmer. The farmer began sneezing like crazy! The Professor said, “Ooops!”
After all the dust had settled and all the sneezing had stopped, the Professor asked the farmers what they were doing. The farmer said that she was preparing the field and planting corn in the field. The Professor realized that he was hungry for corn-on-the-cob, so he said, “I will help you, I will plant corn over in the next field!” The farmer tried to say something, but the Professor was not listening to her. The Professor tossed several bags of corn seed into the flying bus and then he got in the flying bus and turned on the propeller on the roof! Immediately the whole area was in the middle of a dust storm and the farmer sneezed so much that she fell over! The flying bus went up in the air and the Professor used the front propeller to take them over the next field. Shane asked the Professor, “How are you going to plant the corn seeds?” The Professor said, “Watch me!”
The Professor grabbed a big handful of corn seeds, stuck his hand out one of the windows and threw the corn up into the big propellor on the roof. The propeller scattered the corn all over that part of the field! Shane and Shelly started throwing corn up into the propeller too and soon that part of the field had a lot of corn scattered onto it. The Professor then flew over another part of the field and they threw more corn into the propeller and covered that part of the field with corn too. Shelly said, “We are all out of corn, we need more!” The Professor flew back to the farmer, she saw them coming and ran for her life!
After the dust had settled, the farmer came back into the field and she was mad! She ran up to the Professor and yelled at him, “What do you think you are doing? You do not know anything about farming! Corn will not grow on top of the ground; it must be planted into the ground! Also, I don’t even own that field where you just wasted my seeds!” The Professor said, “Ooops!” Then the Professor said, “I’m hungry I am going to the field that I planted and get some corn-on-the-cob to eat!” The farmer said, “There will not be any corn to eat! It is not harvest time until fall, that is the way God made it!” The Professor did not believe the farmer, so she just shook her head and walked away.
The Professor, Shane, and Shelly walked over to the next field and found out that the farmer had told them the truth. There was no corn growing in that field, but there were a bunch of crows in the field eating the corn seeds that were lying on top of the ground! The Professor yelled at the crows, “Stop eating that corn, I planted that and should grow corn-on-the-cob any minute now!” The crows heard the Professor and they attacked! Dozens of crows began flew straight at the Professor and began pecking him on the head! The Professor said, “Ooops and Oww!” The Professor ran away with the whole flock of crows chasing him! Shane and Shelly walked back to the farmer, and she let them help her plant corn the right way in her field.
About an hour later the Professor came back, he was tired, out of breath, and covered with bruises from being pecked by the crows. The Professor was now ready to listen to the farmer and she explained to them that God had designed the different seasons. Seeds were planted in the spring, grew during the summer, and were harvested during the fall. God had planned it that way, there was a proper time for everything, people could depend on harvest time coming because God had made it that way! The farmer, Professor, Shane and Shelly were all hungry now, so they all went into the flying bus and had cheese sandwiches for lunch! The farmer asked the Professor why they were flying around in his house. The Professor answered, “I am on a quest to find out how to have a friendship with God. I know a lot about God, but I do not fell like I really know Him.” The farmer said, “I have learned a lot about God from farming, God has planned a time for everything to happen. There is a time to plant seeds, there is a time for harvesting food, and there is a time to eat the food! Right now, Professor, you are going through a time of learning about God. You are learning a lot of things about God. You will be learning about God’s love for you, how God’s Son Jesus Christ came to earth to die on the cross to pay for the sins of the whole world, and then rose from the dead. Someday soon there will come a time when you completely understand all of this and will want to ask Jesus to forgive your sins and come into your life. I pray that day will come very soon for you!”
The Learning Corner:
This week we have learned that God has plans. In God’s plan there is a time for everything. In the Bible in the book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 1-8 God says:
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to turn away. A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear and a time to mend. A time to be quiet and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.”
In the Bible in the book of Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 God says:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
God has a plan for you! He wants to have a relationship (friendship) with you! He has done his part by sending His Son Jesus to pay for your sins by dying on the cross and rising from the dead! Your part is to believe in Jesus, decide that you want to turn from your sins and live for God, and to pray and ask for forgiveness. The Professor has not figured this out yet, he is still searching. But you do not have to wait for the Professor to figure it out, you can ask Jesus for forgiveness and to come into your life today. Please do this today, do not put it off!