As Children

The other day Tracy and I were driving down the street, and while waiting at a stop light we were watching a little girl with her father standing on the bus stop. There was water dripping down on to the sidewalk where they were standing and the little girl was just having a blast running back and forth under the dripping water. She didn’t have a care in the world, she wasn’t worrying about anything, she was happy and full of joy right there as her father was watching her. I was saying to myself that’s nice, and also thinking how marvelous it would be to live life like that, without a care in the world, in pure innocence without having to worry about the issues of life and some of the challenges it brings in our adult lives.

Than it dawned on me; I can live life like that and a matter of fact, I am living life like that. As believers in Christ we always have to remember that God views us as His children, we make it difficult on ourselves when we view our relationship with God any other way. As adults we want knowledge, because we were always taught that the more knowledge the better. That little girl on the bus stop probably knew nothing about sin, nothing about stress, nothing about worry; all she knew is that she was having fun playing in the water and she knew that her father was watching out for her.

I want more of relationship with God in that manner; I don’t want to know all there is to the world, I just want to be taught the things that God wants to teach me in the right time. I don’t want to jump ahead of myself and embark on the quest for knowledge that He’s not ready to bestow upon me yet. I want to be like that little girl with her father. I want to be happy right where I am not having to worry about tomorrow or the next day, just as long as I know that my Father is watching out for me, that is all that manners and in time I will be taught the things that He wants to teach me when I am ready.

John 13:33 (NKJV)
“Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, “Where I am going you cannot come,’…

This scripture are the words of Jesus aka God, He is referring to us as His little children, that’s how I want to be. I don’t want to think of myself higher than I ought too. When you come to the revelation that we are just His children, no matter if you’re 10 or 100 and you know that God has got your back; that is all that should matter.

Psalms 34:11
Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

And when the time is right He will teach you all you need to know, when you need to know. My quest in God isn’t for knowledge but rather the revelation of relationship with my Father. There was one whose quest was for knowledge and it only brought death. I think his name was Adam.

I pray that this has been a blessing on your lives.

Daryle Houston II
Kingdom Vizion Ministries
www.kingdomvizion.org