Eph 5 :8
1st Cor. 13 :11
I Love looking out on the congregation or when I’m seated among my Brothers and Sisters, seeing young ones fussing, fidgeting or roaming around. Yesterday as I was leading worship, a toddler of about 2 1/2years came to the front and wanted to visit me. I picked her up and just continued on. I told her Momma it was OK. I just loved it. She instinctively knew she was among family and safe. A Church with children running around to me is almost a pulse, a heart beat. It never fails to remind me how special children are to Jesus. They are a constant reminder of how he would remind us to be child-like. Fellas, that is child-like, NOT childish.
We are reborn into Gods family as his children. That is a positional relationship. What is meaningful to God is NOT a positional relationship, but rather a relationship of dependence, based of the Atonement of Christ. This does not come naturally. It requires us to suspend all the lessons we've been taught about self reliance and independence; even those of common sense. It takes a conscience decision to grow into dependence on God. We expend a vast amount of energy and time reminding ourselves to be dependent on Jesus. That is the conscience part of the decision. Christ wants us to be child like. Learning to put to death self-dependence is not easy nor does it happen quickly. God is constantly refining us. A pleasing child strives to be "a runner" in the race, striving for the prize as Paul called himself. (1st Cor. 9:24,25) However as long as it is a conscience decision, we have a ways to go in our walk with the Savior, because we have not become instinctively dependent on God. Child like is when we have become instinctively dependent on God. We must come to the point where "apart from him, we can do nothing" (John 15:5) it becomes as natural as breathing. "A Saint is never consciously a Saint, a Saint is consciously dependent on God"-Oswald Chambers. As a child instinctively depends on its parents, so we should become Dependent children of The most High God. Let us pray:
Lord, Father of us all, we come to you as your Children. As our Father you provide for us, you insure we never do with out. You are as intimately involved in our lives as any natural parent. You seek for us what is the very best for us and you deliver on your promises. Why Lord is it so hard for us to simply depend on you? Perhaps it is the mystery that is Faith. Lord we want to live simply as children and depend on you. Help us to do so. We Love you Father. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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