Children Teach Us True Faith
You have taught children and infants to give you praise. -- Psalm 8:2a (NLT)
The prayer request was urgent. The little girl was really sick and the outcome was uncertain. So prayers went up and slowly the little girl got better. She’s still in the hospital. She’s still really sick. But she has quite a story to tell.
It seems that when she was at her worst, when she was really sick and scared, God stayed with her. Three angels were there too. God really likes spaghetti and meatballs, she said. And she didn’t have to be afraid because He was with her.
It gives new meaning to the phrase “out of the mouths of babes” doesn’t it? This little girl, who is far too young by accepted standards to really understand who God is, met Him in her darkest hour. She’s too little to doubt. She’s much too young to explain away her “dream” or blame it on the medicine. She knows what she experienced and who was there with her. Her faith is strong and true.
I wish all of us could have that kind of faith. And I wish we didn’t have to suffer something horrible to get to that place. I wish we could know always, in that place deep inside of us, that He is with us and will sustain us no matter what. But we adults have a way of making excuses and worrying ourselves to death over things we can’t control or change.
Why do we find it so difficult to believe that God is with us when we are afraid? Why do we doubt when we know He has promised to take care of us? Why do we run away from His outstretched hand when we know our only real security is found in His arms?
“I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” -- Mark 10:15 (NIV)
Faith. Belief without seeing. Knowing without doubting. Certainty in an uncertain world.
And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.”
-- Mark 10:16 (NIV)
Thanks you, God, for small children who teach us the true meaning of faith.
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