ListenDaily – 01 April 2010: Like a child...
"And Jesus said: "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
(Matthew 18:3-4)
OK, so you remember growing up, some of the stages you went through. And if you, as an adult, have seen someone else grow up, you can see what they have been through. Little children have complete faith and trust in their parents. Teenagers often think those same parents know nothing. As they mature into adulthood, they realize the true wisdom their parents really had, if they really mature.
Jesus said "You must be born again." (John 3:7) And it follows in the Scriptures that once one is born again, meaning spiritually, that they must also mature again, also spiritually. I think we sometimes get stuck in, or revert to, a sort of immature spiritual mentality, where we do not acknowledge by the way we live that God is superior to us. Oh, we would never say we are smarter than God, but actions speak louder than words.
We send a lot of time figuring things out for ourselves. There might be a nominal prayer for help, but we often get up off our knees and go off on in our own wisdom and strength. We look at situations through human eyes and leave no room for Heavenly intervention. Is it our egos that will not accept that there exists a mind so much greater than ours? God desires to lead us, but we must see Him as a child sees a father, the incapable looking to the completely capable, and allow Him to operate.
A friend of mine, Luke Weaver, who pastors in Harrisonburg, Va., shared Isaiah 50:10-11 with me recently, :
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment.
TOMORROW(I though it would be today): Through a child's eyes,continued.
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Questions:
1. Do your actions show that you completely need God in every area of your life?
2. How does that, or could it, affect seeing what God wants for you?
3. Can you pray, right now, for God to show you, specifically, what He wants you to do?
INTERESTING THOUGHT:
"Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It." Oswald Chambers
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