Daily Butter 10/28: Childlike

My little addition to Our Daily Bread (10/28/11):

 

    Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself
    like a little weaned child with its mother;
    I am like a little child.

    (Psalm 131:2  HCSB)

 

Throughout Scripture we are challenged, to have a childlike quality to our faith. The insight’s of David H Roper in today’s ODB were a great reminder. To view things as a child is not only to understand there are some things we are not “big enough” to handle (v1) but also to understand that there is so much about life and especially spiritual life that I do not and could not possibly understand. I love the imaginative dialog David included in the ODB:

 

I ask, “Why this affliction? Why this anguish?”

The Father answers, “Hush, child. You wouldn’t understand if I explained it to you. Just trust Me!”

 

Faith is trust. While the longing to gain understanding is natural and good, the simplicity of trusting our loving Father that all that we don’t understand is working out for our good (Roman 8:28) is what it means to be His child.

 

Don’t worry about the little stuff.

God is the big stuff.

So the rest is little stuff.

- Andy Jentes