For the past couple weeks, I have come across the verses Matthew 18:3 and Luke 18:17. I have been hearing over and over, “Be like a child. Act like a child.”
I sat down yesterday morning and prayed, “God what do you want me to learn today?” I started flipping through my Bible and found myself in Luke. I looked down and it was the chapter on having Faith like a child. So, I was like this is something i’ve heard over and over again. Maybe I should read into it.
Luke 18:17, “Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
I had no idea what that meant. God wants me to act like a child? He wants me to receive the kingdom.. like a child. None of it made sense.
I texted a very close friend of mine and asked her what this even meant (I ask her all my Jesus questions). As soon as I texted her the question, she was like oh my goodness… I’m still confused as to what is happening. She told me that she had that conversation with two of her friends earlier that week on the same topic! I got completely freaked out. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before.
She continued to tell me why God probably wanted me to get this message through my head.
When it comes to children, they have complete faith in their parents no matter how big or small the circumstance is.
As we get older, we see how dark the world is. We lose faith in everything. We know that bad things are all around us and we let it get to us. We start to get depressed even if the smallest thing goes wrong. We have lost faith. We put our trust in people and our jobs to get us through life.
I am going through a lot of doubt right now. I find myself thinking that this is impossible. I go back and forth with believing God will provide and thinking what if I am not working hard enough for the money. I have people who are doubting that God will provide and is getting to me to doubt him too.
God wants me to have complete faith in him. He wants all of my trust that he will do what he said he would do. He wants us to grab his hand and ask him to lead us.
This whole experience was so cool to me. I was telling my friend how I have never really heard God before. There have been plenty of moments where I have felt the Holy Spirit, but I have never heard God.
If the World Race is even a little bit like this experience, I know this will be the best year of my life.
God is wild.
