I've learned it's contagious. Childlike faith. When I spend any amount of time with children, my heart is captured by what is truly important in life.
Another child, knowing I'm going to home school, gave me his math book with $5 of his own tucked inside to support this mission
Yesterday I made it back up to The Shack to help volunteer with the kids. I was immediately bombarded by hugs... I really miss teaching there! I got the opportunity to lead a small group of 3rd graders and we discussed our favorite names of Jesus. Going around the circle I heard Jesus, Light of the World, Everlasting Father, Messiah, and Immanuel, "God with us".
We pondered how Joseph might have felt when the angel of the Lord came to him in that first dream telling him to name their son Jesus. Many of the kids exclaimed that they would have "peed their pants!"
That's just it. No inhibitions. Just real... Isn't that how God wants us to come to Him? (I don't mean with dirty pee pants, but I know with certainty He'd take you that way, too!)
That's just it. No inhibitions. Just real... Isn't that how God wants us to come to Him? (I don't mean with dirty pee pants, but I know with certainty He'd take you that way, too!)
There is a simple innocence about the way children think and pray that encourages me to return to that state. It's what Jesus spoke of in Mark 10: 14-15...
He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it."
I think that's why I love spending time with kids. Their faith is contagious. They come as they are and are hungry for Truth. They pray what's on their hearts and know God hears their every prayer... and we've prayed some pretty awesome prayers together.
Nothing is impossible for their God and the whole world lays before them. I cannot even begin to describe the feeling I get when a child learns something new about God from the Bible, tells a friend about Jesus, or is overjoyed to share how they saw God move that week. You can't help but be filled with joy in knowing that the Kingdom of God truly belongs to such as these.
Nothing is impossible for their God and the whole world lays before them. I cannot even begin to describe the feeling I get when a child learns something new about God from the Bible, tells a friend about Jesus, or is overjoyed to share how they saw God move that week. You can't help but be filled with joy in knowing that the Kingdom of God truly belongs to such as these.
And it's not only childlike faith, it's childlike giving...
A little girl gave me this note and box of her toys to take to kids who need joy
The whole Shack went to work coloring 30 backpacks for kids in the villages
Another child, knowing I'm going to home school, gave me his math book with $5 of his own tucked inside to support this mission
These children have faith in what God can and will do, and I'm encouraged by how God is moving in their hearts to advance His Kingdom.
Childlike faith knows no age... it's for all who come to the Lord and ask for Him to live in their hearts. It's that simple. It's childlike.
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