Uncluttered Faith
Bedtime is a bad time for kids. No child understands the logic of going to bed while there is energy left in the body or hours left in the day.
My children were no exception. One night years ago, after many objections and countless groans, the girls were finally in their gowns, in their beds, and on their pillows. I slipped into the room to give them a final kiss. Andrea, the five-year-old was still awake, just barely, but awake. After I kissed her, she lifted her eyelids one final time and said, "I can't wait until I wake up."
Oh, for the attitude of a five-year-old! That simple uncluttered passion for living that can't wait for tomorrow. A philosophy of life that reads, "Play hard, laugh hard, and leave the worries to your father." A bottomless well of optimism flooded by a perpetual spring of faith. Is it any wonder Jesus said we must have the heart of a child before we can enter the kingdom of heaven?
I like the way J. B. Phillips renders Jesus' call to childlikeness: "Jesus called a little child to his side and set him on his feet in the middle of them all. 'Believe me,' he said, 'unless you change your whole outlook and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.' (Matthew 18:2-3)
From "And the Angels Were Silent"
Max Lucado
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Hoody's been saying the site needs a woman's touch. (chuckle) Will probably shock him to no end to see a post up here by me. Health issues tend to distract. Anyway, didn't post to talk about that but to talk about the Max Lucado Upwards I got in my email the other day. (good book this passage came from by the way) I've really been on a faith like a child kick lately. I've known Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior since I was 7 years old. And I still remember that unquestioning faith I had in God. I grew up, got wiser by the worlds standard, life started crowding in, and I find myself more and more yearning and seeking for that child like faith I had. The attitude that says "Don't worry, Daddy has it covered." - SCW in AZ
Bedtime is a bad time for kids. No child understands the logic of going to bed while there is energy left in the body or hours left in the day.
My children were no exception. One night years ago, after many objections and countless groans, the girls were finally in their gowns, in their beds, and on their pillows. I slipped into the room to give them a final kiss. Andrea, the five-year-old was still awake, just barely, but awake. After I kissed her, she lifted her eyelids one final time and said, "I can't wait until I wake up."
Oh, for the attitude of a five-year-old! That simple uncluttered passion for living that can't wait for tomorrow. A philosophy of life that reads, "Play hard, laugh hard, and leave the worries to your father." A bottomless well of optimism flooded by a perpetual spring of faith. Is it any wonder Jesus said we must have the heart of a child before we can enter the kingdom of heaven?
I like the way J. B. Phillips renders Jesus' call to childlikeness: "Jesus called a little child to his side and set him on his feet in the middle of them all. 'Believe me,' he said, 'unless you change your whole outlook and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven.' (Matthew 18:2-3)
From "And the Angels Were Silent"
Max Lucado
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Hoody's been saying the site needs a woman's touch. (chuckle) Will probably shock him to no end to see a post up here by me. Health issues tend to distract. Anyway, didn't post to talk about that but to talk about the Max Lucado Upwards I got in my email the other day. (good book this passage came from by the way) I've really been on a faith like a child kick lately. I've known Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior since I was 7 years old. And I still remember that unquestioning faith I had in God. I grew up, got wiser by the worlds standard, life started crowding in, and I find myself more and more yearning and seeking for that child like faith I had. The attitude that says "Don't worry, Daddy has it covered." - SCW in AZ
posted by T @ 3:41 PM
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Isn't it true, that as we "mature" in the faith, we actually tend to make complete surrender to God far to complicated?
(chuckle) Yes it is. I can't tell you the number of times God in His wisdom has told me I'm making things hard by complicating them and tells me to go back to the basics, simplify.
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