Let's get small!

Let's get small!

Think back to when you were a kid. Most of us took part in playing make
believe and we almost always played the roll of a grown up. When you are a
child, you cannot wait to grow up. There are many reasons for wanting that
in a child's mind. But most of all it was day dreaming of freedom. Freedom
from bullies, freedom from rules and teachers and parents that always seemed
to regulate everything we did from the time we got up until we went to bed.
And remember this line? "When I grow up I am going to let my kids do
whatever they want."

Well, time passed and we did grow up just to realize how good we had it when
we were kids. Ah, to have those carefree days again. But as tough as life
is on us grown ups, we as Christians still have the opportunity to be kids.
1John 3:1 NLT states, "See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for
he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people
who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we
are his children." You can be a kid again with God. As we become adults we
think that we can only talk to God about the "big" things. We think that we
can only go to Him in deep reverent prayer and ask Him for help in making
very big and important decisions. This is just not so. Our bodies do not
communicate with God in prayer. Our spirits do and they are ageless and
timeless. They are God's precious child that He created. So the next time
that you pray to Him, do it with the mind and soul and spirit of a child.
Forget the fancy words. Forget the pomp and circumstance. Take yourself
back to a simpler time. Ask as a child for your needs and desires. You are
not some distant relative of the King. You are His sons and daughters. You
may be somebody to someone in the physical, but you are a dear and lovely
child to your heavenly Father in spirit. He is real. He created you. He
thought of you before time even began. He made you in His image. He is
your Father. When you were a kid and someone hurt you or picked on you or
you had a problem that just seemed too big to handle, you would go to your
dad. He always made things right. In your child's mind, there was nothing
that Dad could not do. No problem too big for him to handle for you. Well,
if you had all that confidence in your earthly father that was merely human
and could make mistakes, why then do you make talking to and going to your
Heavenly Father so complicated? And why is it that because we cannot see
Him, we feel that we may or may not be heard by Him. Again go back to what
you learned of God as a child. The basics. God always was and always will
be. He is everywhere all at once. He sees everything. He hears
everything. God has not changed, but you have.

God knows what our problems are before we ask. But why miss the opportunity
to be a kid again at least once a day? Let's do something that only the
children of the King can do as adults. Pack our little suitcases and run
away from the world today. Run to our Father in heaven that gave us life.
And in the suitcase pack all our troubles and worries and concerns and leave
them with God. As our Father, He will know exactly what to do with them.
And He will guide us through our trials everyday just as our earthly dads
did when we were young. So tonight, let's pack our bags of troubles and
woes and let's get small.