"He wants us, like children, to keep an unreserved faith in Him, simply because He is God." [Pg 95] One of my greatest joys is spending time with my grandchildren. Unless you're a grandparent it's hard to explain how that relationship can become so special. Grandbabies just have the ability to turn your heart into mush ~ instantly. They bring back memories of the little one you nurtured so long ago. That's where grandbabies come in. Once a week our littlest grandchildren spend time with me and we have a movie night. Our choice that night was the movie, The Crippled Lamb. It's an animated feature created from a story by Max Lucado about a lamb who was born with a crippled leg. The lamb's deformity left him angry at God. He couldn't understand why God would let him be an object of scorn and teasing? Did God care about his suffering? As we watched I wondered: were our little ones able to process the story well enough to see the truth the crippled lamb had not yet seen? Did they believe Jesus was still good? Or did the movie leave them wondering why people have to suffer? After all, God could fix anything, right? At some point in life, if you haven't experienced it yet, you too will wonder why God allows suffering. It’s a question most Christians eventually ask. Sometime I will tell you about MY questions and the shouting-at I gave the Lord months after my mom died. But for now it's enough to say that everybody, every one of us, at some point, wonders WHY? As the movie came to a conclusion and we see a purpose in the lambs defect, my precious little one (the one I call Sweetness) spoke. She sat forward and looked at me and said, "I love Jesus." She was seeing God with compassionate eyes. She saw good in God even though the lamb did suffer. I questioned my old heart. Has it become dull? What's my point? Children get it right. They don't get confused by all the stuff adults throw into the mix when considering life. They get it right. They know we live. They know we suffer sometimes. And they know that God always, ALWAYS, loves them no matter what happens in their life. I need to work on renewing my heart ~ growing it into a fresh heart that lives by 'little-one faith.' How 'bout you?
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