“Anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” –Luke 18:17 NLT
This was one of the verses that I ended up reading this week to my Sunday School Class. I thought nothing of this verse, I’ve heard it many different times before, though this evening I was reminded of it. I looked into it a bit more, this verse means that as Christians we are to have “child-like faith”. I found that the most common interpretation of “child-like faith” is simple faith, which is putting our trust 100% in God, no questions asked.
Children are so ready and willing to put their trust in things and people, and they have faith in so many different ways that older people don’t. They completely have faith in their parents to take care of them, to provide for all their needs. They easily trust people’s promises, as they have child-like faith that those people will keep their promises.
Just tonight I was playing hide and seek with my little brother Scott, who’s 10 and my cousin David, who’s 7. Scott didn’t want to tell David about his AWESOME hiding place, because he thought David would tell me where this spot was. David then said “I pinky promise I won’t tell Cass” and that promise was good enough for Scott, he had trust in David to keep his promise and told him about the spot.
I need more child-like faith in my Father and in all of the promises he gives us. This whole process of fundraising has just begun to teach me this. I’m beginning to realize that since God has truly called me to go on this trip he will provide for me every dollar that I need to go.
I was extremely discouraged about a month ago when I had realized that instead of $12,500 I needed to raise about $15,000 CAD. When I was adding up my total right before the first deadline, I had guessed that I would be about 500 dollars short of the first amount. As I was counting though, I was shocked to find that I was about $200 OVER! God had provided me with more than enough, and even though I had been telling myself that He would provide, I was still incredibly overwhelmed.
So far I’ve also been stressing out that I’m not good enough to go on this trip. I’m not a good enough Christian, I’m not a good enough speaker, I’m not a brave enough to travel across the world by myself, I’m not independent enough. Our first country that we’re going to is Guatemala, and yet I speak absolutely no Spanish. How am I supposed to be able to witness and build relationships with people if I can’t speak a word of their language? What if I say the wrong thing to someone? These are just a few of my many worries about this trip. Yet I must again have more of this “child-like faith” that God will be true to His word:
“Do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” ~Luke 12:11-12.
So I don’t need to worry about if I’ll be good enough to be a missionary, because I’ve figured out that I won’t be, but yet God still wants me to go serve Him!
