Have you hung out with a little kid lately? I am suuuper awkward when it comes to being around children under the age of 10. I blame this on the fact that I am the youngest and my contact with little people has been minimal. There is a reason why I only babysat for a few years. One of my last babysitting memories was being tied to a trampoline with yarn, only to have the 5 year old run into the house to get the scissors to “untie me”. This is what you DON’T mention to the parents when they come home in the evening.
The fact is little children are fascinating. They have an incredible imagination and ability to make friends with random strangers. They have no fear of what people think and are the first to show off their new skills whether is a song or a headstand. I used to dance in the church isles as a little girl. My brothers and I would create elaborate forts with blankets and clothes pins. The sofa became a lifeguard chair, and the closets would become caves and “marmot holes”. We painted the sides of my playhouse with a fresh coat of mud and once dug a hole so deep that I was sure we were going to make a secret passageway under the yard.
Lately I feel as if I have been regressing in maturity. And I mean that in the most wonderful way possible. The Lord has been teaching me about become a child again. Taking back the concept of unashamed, unapologetic childlike trust. Trust that says nothing else in the world matters except what my Father thinks of me. Trust that doesn’t try to hoard provision for later. Trust that is willing to twirl in the isles. Trust that wants to do a cartwheel on freshly cut grass. Trust that is willing to walk in the gifts the Lord has given purely to please Him.
There is sweet simplicity in becoming a child before the Lord. Simplicity just means uncomplicated and innocent; a freedom from vanity. Assuming the position of a child is to be at the hand and in the care of the Father, who is at the same time, one to be feared and respected as well as one who you can crawl up on His lap and make any request. We do that out of a love for Him, but also out of the profound innate knowledge that we are His kids.
-Galatians 4:5-7
Where are you complicating the simple joy of spending time with your Dad? Where do you doubt that He will provide? Are you hoarding? Are you bargaining?
Give Jesus the gift of your TRUST.
