Faith Like a Child

Sitting in church this morning, there was the cutest little baby girl in front of me sitting on her daddy's lap.
As i smiled at her and made silly faces at her, I couldn't help but think about the babies in my daycare class.
I miss those little faces so much!

I had movie like flash back memory montage.
The one thing that stuck out the most to me though, was the expression of pure joy and excitement on the babies faces as I would throw them up towards the ceiling and catch them before they would fall and hit the floor.

No sense of fear. No signs of worry.
They had complete faith in me that I would catch them.
No thoughts of danger ever crossed their little minds.


Why?
Well, why should they fear?
I had never dropped them before. Why would they think I would? I loved them and didn't want any harm to come to them.

Then why so often do we, as adults, fear and worry that God is going to drop us? Has He ever before? Will He ever?

He places us on maintain tops, with such beautiful and extraordinary views. Yet instead of enjoying the view God has blessed us with, we live in constant fear of failing.

As we grow up, we begin to question EVERYTHING
We grow out of our child like faith. Be it because someone has hurt us, or because we have hurt ourselves.
Be it because we meet someone with different opinions from our own and we want to know more about what they believe. Be it to fit in. Be it because we came from a torn home and everything/everyone we used to trust has abandoned us. Or be it just because it comes with growing up and exploring our boundaries.

Whatever the reason may be, the fact still remains... we don't have the same faith in humanity that we once did as children.
And we may not have the same faith in our God that we might have once had.

"After all, if people let us down...why wouldn't God?"
And that's what Satan wants us to believe.
He doesn't want us to have that childlike faith.
He wants us to doubt God's love, doubt God's rules for our lives, and doubt the fact someone as perfect as Him can love someone as imperfect as us.

We need to learn to break those chains. We need to not listen to the lies Satan forces down our throats, and believe the words of the Savior.

We need to...believe it or not... revert back to our childhood...
Not in the sense of hiding from monsters under our bed or playing in forts while drinking chocolate milk and coloring, but in the sense of complete and utter belief in and surrender to our Father...our heavenly Father.

Jesus during His earthly ministry refereed to the children and to their faith during one of His sermons~

Mark 10:13-16 
             People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

Just like a child deep down believes that his earthy father is doing what's best for him (even if he doesn't want to or doesn't see it at the moment), so we need to believe that our heavenly Father is doing what He is doing for the betterment of ourselves and for His glory.

When we fall, we need to believe He will catch us.
When we screw up, we need to believe that He will forgive us.
When we make Him angry, we need to believe that He still loves us.
And when we feel like we can't continue on anymore, we need to believe that He will lovingly pick us up and carry is till we regain the strength to continue on on our own 2 feet.

We need to trust like we have never been lied to.
Even though we may have been, it wasn't God...so why take it out on Him?

So cuddle up to Him in prayers. Sit on His lap and talk to Him. Cry on His almighty shoulder.
You may not be A child anymore, but you will always be HIS child :)

"The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith."

 Live...Laugh...Love...
Until Next Time,
Racheal <3