A Mary Heart... by Joanna Weaver Week 9:Lessons from Lazarus Blog 9: I Don't Know Pages 117 - 1364/13/2017 “‘The hardest problem I have to handle as a Christian,’ pastor and author Ray C. Stedman once said, ‘is what to do when God does not do what I have been taught to expect him to do; when God gets out of line and does not act the way I think he ought. What do I do about that?’” [pg. 121] I love talking with little ones about God. Their view of him is so pure. For example, ‘the earth is beautiful because God made it that way for us…’ Or, ‘the sun shines after rain so we can see how the grass sparkles…’ Or, ‘the trees give us shade in the summer with their big leaves so we don’t get too hot. That’s why they don’t have leaves in winter ~ so the rain can reach all the stuff underneath….’ You know, the beautifully simple and understandable reasons why things are the way they are. Yet, it is harder to understand why things are the way they are when they are not sparkly, or they are too hot ~ or even when things wither and die because they did not receive the nourishment they need. It’s easy to forget after living a long number of years that I am, in fact, only a child. God is my Father, I am a child. Matthew 18:2-4 "He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Christ is talking about the quality of dependence upon the Omnipotent One. When did I grow up so big that I could trust my understanding over God's? When you ask a little one, ‘why do bad things happen?’ they will likely shrug and say, “I don’t know.” They don’t need to know because they’re the child, and He is God, and they understand that. ~ Andi
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