Remember those songs we grew up listening to in day care? The ones that went on loop, that get stuck in your head really easily. For example…
Down by the bay
Where the watermelons grow
Back to my home
I dare not go
This is the song I currently have stuck in my head.
This month ministry looks vastly different from what I’ve been experiencing so far on the Race. Maggie, Tessie, and I are serving this month by working in a day care. Our first week has been joyful, exhausting, silly, and overall just wonderful.
I have been in the older kids room (3-5 year olds) and it has been simply incredible. These kids each have incredibly different personalities and I love each one of them.
The Lord is already using them to teach me about His character and who I am to Him.
These kids trust so easily; they know they will be taken care of.
I open my arms and they run to me; they know there is a warm embrace waiting for them.
They are children; they are not worried about anything.
I don’t know about you, but I want to live more like these kids. Of course, I’d have to protest to being spoon fed, but in these other aspects these kids really have it figured out.
I don’t know when, where, or how but at some point down the line of growing up we get convinced that we have to take things into our own hands. We get convinced that our Father won’t take care of us. We worry, doubt, and scramble to make things happen when the Lord just asks us to be still.
I was talking with God the other night and he told me this…
“Be still and just be with me. You are like these children and I am sustaining you. I will take care of you, but you have to be still long enough to let me.”
When we are still long enough to be taken care of we are in a much better position than when we try to figure it all out by ourselves. Just like when the kids sit down long enough for us to feed them; they get what they need to sustain them.
What I’m trying to say is that we should start acting more like children of God. He has already claimed us and he wants to take care of us. We don’t have to strive, worry, or doubt.
We can just be held in the warm embrace of our Father; knowing that He will take care of all our needs. He’s got us.
Take some time this week to ask the Lord how you can be more like a child. Ask him how you can find more rest in him. Ask him to help you be still, I know I have to. Ask him to give you child-like wonder.
He wants to give you these things freely, you just have to be still.
With great love,
Chels
