Today, like most days on the race, I sat trusting an almost complete stranger as they drove me to my destination.
My next door neighbor this month, a pastor, volunteered to drop off me and two others at an authentic Jamaican restaurant. We get in his little black car while he’s blaring Christian music from the 90s, and me and my teammates all start to sing along because we know every word.
I sit in the back seat with another teammate as well as the pastors wife and little 2 year old daughter. The songs start to play and I catch glances of his little daughter singing along like a pro. The chorus of one of the song says, hallelujah, hallelujah. She sings along and through my glances I can’t help but be so proud of this little girl I don’t even know. I’m filled with joy at watching her worship and the fact that her little voice is so precious.
It’s then that God speaks to me, that’s how he sees us when we worship him. We’re his children, he just longs for us to worship him in spirit and in truth with all we have. It doesn’t matter how well we sing or how much we know, but when we truly worship with our whole heart like that 2 year old, I know God smiles with joy down at us. I know he’s so proud of us, I know he just gets giddy over hearing us sing his name.
Scripture says we should have faith like a child. Having faith like a child means singing with all of our little hearts. Kids are bold and they don’t get caught up in political correctness or fear of rejection like most adults. They say what they want, they ask questions, and they believe things with an uncorrupted faith.
That’s what God calls us into, a radical, uncorrupted, bold, and truth preaching walk. That 2 year old, as she was worshipping our creator, inspired me. Be bold. Say the things. Sing with all you have to the one who gave us life. Tell others about him. Know him and love him. And be like a child in your faith, don’t get caught up in the world. Let your walk be as that of the 2 year old, faith filled and bold!
Matthew 18: 2-4, ” then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, ” Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
