I held a baby the other day. Yes, some of you understand how strange that statement might sound. It wasn’t just a baby, but it was a 2 day old baby. We were evangelizing in this village and we went to pray for this family. We were praying over the women in the house and after the prayer the mother handed me her 2 day old baby. She just handed it to me.
I was in a bit of shock. I mean people in american don’t just typically hand over their newborn over to a complete stranger. Also, I’m not the typical baby holding type of girl. I mean this was the youngest baby I’ve ever held besides when my sister was born. I do remember holding my baby sister. I was four and she was heavy.
But in that moment she started to hand the baby to me, I was like no no no no. But as I just stood there it was a crazy feeling that overwhelmed me. I loved holding that little girl. Then I thought about our Father in heaven. There is so much love he has for us. The crazy awesome thing is that it is immediate just like a mother for her baby. God doesn’t say well I’ll love her a lot more when she finally learns how to talk, or when she can feed herself or when she understands how to memorize verses. He just loves us unconditionally. He loves us for who we are right at this moment. He doesn’t love a future better version of us, but he loves us because it is his nature. He loves us because that is the essence of being God.
