The Key is: A Child Does It

Good Friday morning! The clouds have hidden the sun, but the Son is not so hidden. Today, I want to ask why this think, yeah that too, I mean this thing, is so hard for me. A child does it without trying hard. In fact, Jesus said that we must become as little children to enter the kingdom of Heaven. So if a child does it well, and I am all grown up now, I guess, why is this thing harder for me? Perhaps the training of the world has become a stumbling block for me. For years, I have been trained to be the rugged individualist lauded by the American people for a couple hundred years or more. We all have received this sort of training through words and shows. This makes it difficult to ask for help, and makes it more difficult to take one thing and go all the way in faith. That thing is to trust God.

A child does it, but we as adults have more, much more, difficulty trusting God. We look at all the second-hand stories, the news reports, and our experiences in this life and we confuse the choices of some with God not paying attention. In our heads we learn that God knows everything, but in our hearts we think that maybe He turns to watch something else at times and misses those tragedies. Surely, we think, God must have been watching some other project of His a bit too closely when you or I had that thing happen to us. How could God, the one we are trying to trust, let THAT happen?!

The key is: a child does it, and does it well. Trusting God is about giving up what we have learned about going it alone and trusting Him to guide, direct, provide, send, or whatever is needed to solve whatever the problem is right now. Problems will come and go, but God has not changed. Strength, talent, and ability are all fickle things dependent upon circumstance, health, and wealth. We cannot depend upon what we see or think we know, but we can depend fully on God. A child does not believe that he or she can do everything; the world teaches that with trite sayings and other training methods. A child knows better than you and me that God can do anything He wants to do. Why do we seem to have so much trouble with that?

So, how is it that God can allow all these personal choices that hurt and kill others, and yet have His plan work out from Creation to Destruction to Re-Creation? Easy, He's God! Now remember that while you and I travel through this day.

The circumstance of your today is working out just as God will have it.
Bucky