First let me apologize, my blogging has been at an all-time low. I have found it hard to put into words the work, growth, and day-to-day activities that we have been experiencing in New Zealand.
Oh how the Bible makes faith seem so uncomplicated at times. We awake every morning as a group, and do a Bible study. This month we have been going through Matthew. A nice simple book, at least it seemed, to begin with. It has stories that we are all familiar with, and can chew. Every morning we open our Bibles and find a story about how Jesus healed a blind man; raised someone from the dead; walked on water, and it has been a uplifting study. However, just like the disciples in these stories of great faith = great healing, we have struggled with Gods ability to heal. For us who use logic and then try and make God fit that logic, things get complicated. If He is omni everything then how does what we do count? If we can’t change His mind then why does it matter if we pray? OHHHH the questions that seem just to make everything a little more complicated. I really have no answers; I have attempted and failed to wrap my mind around all of this. The more I think the more confusing it gets, but this morning I found comfort with in the pages of Matthew. God did not create us to understand everything. He did not create us to be able to solve every problem and answer every question; if he gave us that ability then why would we need Him? All I know is that our faith should be like that of a child’s, simple, uncomplicated, trusting faith. Jars of Clay put it so well…
They say that I can move the mountains
And send them falling to the sea
They say that I can walk on water
If I would follow and believe with Faith Like a child
Doesn’t FAITH like that of a child seem so easy? Personally for me not really. We as Adults have taken what we have learned, theology, religious view points, teaching and preaching, ideas conjured on our own, and have tried to make our FAITH fit what we have learned. I remember as a small child my father tossing me in the air and catching me. What I possessed was a FAITH in him that he wouldn’t drop me. It is that same type of FAITH that I now need to posses with my heavenly father. I may not always know what is right for me and I may not always see what is planned, but I know that as we walk together, as he teaches me, and grows me; He will never drop me.
Matthew 18:3
“I assure you,” He said, “unless you are converted and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child-this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
