Okay, so i'm gonna go ahead and jump on the bandwagon really fast.... GO SAINTS!!! okay there, got it out of me. Man, today has just been... well, different. I'm just gonna go ahead and get straight to it.
Tonight at Bible study we spoke about faith... and not just any faith. A very specific type of faith: Faith of a child. You see, in one of the Gospels, (sue me for not knowing which one) when a group of small children want to come up and speak to Jesus, the disciples tell them to pretty much go away. Then Jesus turns to the disciples and says basically, you need to have faith like these small children or else you'll never know who i am. Pretty weird huh? Why the heck would we need to have faith like that of a child to become closer to Christ? why, i'm glad you asked!
You see, children have the tendency to love... unconditionally. I'll give you an example. When my mom would drop me off at daycare in the mornings, i would be the saddest kid on the planet. But when 5:00 rolled around, i was the happiest kid alive. To know that my mother was there to rescue me from the dark depths of daycare was the greatest feeling in the world because she was the one i ran to when i got a boo boo, when i was happy, when i was crying. Because she was always there to comfort me and she loved me no matter what i did. And i loved her because, well... i just did. There's not really a reason behind it. It's that simple but complex at the same time.
Children also have the tendency to do what they're told... when they're told. Another example. Tonight, we told a young boy, around the age of 4 or 5, to go tell one of our friends he looked like a girl... childish, but nonetheless very entertaining. His response was "okay." He walked off and did it like his life depended on it.
If you can't see where i'm heading with this, meet me somewhere and we'll get your eyes checked.
Jesus said this because to Him, we are supposed to act like young children. To be completely in love with Him.. and not know why and be perfectly fine with that. We're supposed to do what we're told... when we're told instead of sitting there saying "hold on, this show is almost over" or something along those lines. And when we mess up, He's okay with that! He still loves us. He's still there to put a spiritual band-aid on our boo boo and He's there to embrace us when we are weeping uncontrollably.
To me Jesus, God, (they're the same person by the way) is the ultimate parent. Yea we've heard it 1,000 times, He's our Father. But just think about it. He's our Father. Yea He's gonna punish us when we screw up but He is still, without a doubt, unequivocally in love with us.
So my challenge, to me also, is to have faith like that of a child. So what if we fall and get hurt. So what we screw up... we do it all the time by the way. We've got the love of the Ultimate Father there to save us at the end of the day.
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