Child Like Faith
Have you ever wanted something so much as a child? Although no matter how hard your parents worked it just wasn’t in the cards. I think a lot of us thought they didn’t understand us or how important that one thing was. My son has been taught to worship and praise God in every way and every day. He attended our church for school for two years before he reached the cut off age. His heart broke when he first learned he would no longer learn about Jesus in school but with time and conversations we prayed that he would understand we couldn’t afford to send him to a new private school. It was just any other Monday when I went to pick him up at school. I asked the usual questions, how was lunch, how was your day, what did you learn today. Everything was fine, until he said his class was singing out loud to music and he decided to put his arms up like he does for worship and have a moment. He didn’t put prayer hands up or kneel down or even speak the name of Jesus (he already knows he isn’t allowed at school) but just a simple hand raised was all he felt he needed to do. My heart broke when he said he was sent to go sit down because of it. My heart felt guilty for not being able to send him to a school with Jesus as it’s foundation. I hugged him tight and told him I was so sorry he had to experience that, I told him I was so sorry that he isn’t allowed to praise God at school anymore. He looked up at me and said “it’s okay mommy it’s not your fault they don’t understand God is everything yet”. If I ever questioned if he was still growing closer to God I don’t need to anymore. His words, his small sentence was filled with power, power of my setting my guilt free. All the guilt I once’s felt for not being able to give him what I believed he needed went away. There are many paths to the road of God and I was so fixed on only one that I blind to the path he was already on. He never blamed me, he never saw us (his parents) as not understanding him. He chose to believe that it’s school rules that do not understand, but that they will. You see he ended his sentence with “yet” because he believes everyone will come to understand God’s importance and love. He believes that it’s never too late no matter how old you are. Courageous faith, it’s amazing what faith just one child can have. The simple love and belief children have something we adults need to be filled with more. Here am I filled with guilt over something my son already has. Here am I believing I have to find a way when God already made the way. Most of us believe we have to work endlessly for a way, that we have to work nonstop all day getting things done like a checklist but life isn’t a checklist. It isn’t even a checklist to your goals, in the end we just have to be better than yesterday, work to our best and love each other and leave the rest to God. Give your ways up and understand his ways. Let go of the guilt you feel for life not going as you planned, let go of feeling like you aren’t doing enough because YOU ARE! If I don’t know anything but just this one thing it’s that God’s way is always better.
“NO MATTER WHHAT KEEP YOUR CHILDLIKE INNOCENCE. IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.”
-FEDERICO FELLINI
“AND SAID, “TRULY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS YOU TURN AND BECOME LIKE CHILDREN, YOU WILL NEVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.”
-MATTHEW 18:3
“THE LORD PROTECTS THOSE OF CHILDLIKE FAITH; I WAS FACING DEATH, AND HE SAVED ME.
-PSALMS 116:6
A LITTLE WORSHIP NEVER HURT
I PRAY YOU BECOME GUILT FREE AND START TO SEE THE WORLD IN A NEW WAY, A CHILDLIKE WAY. AS WE GROW UP NEVER COMPLETELY LEAVE BEHIND YOUR INNOCENCE. SO MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE GOD SHOWED US THE WAY TO HEAVEN WAS TO LOVE AND SEE THE WORLD AS CHILDREN DO.