Trusting Like a Child
Psalm 131
Oh Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. Oh Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.
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This morning as I was leaving my house, God reminded me that He is the perfect Father, the perfect Daddy. Just a couple hours later, I read the verses above.
Now that I’ve had the privilege of being a dad for a little less than two years, I’m understanding the love of God in a new light. I want so badly to love my little boy and little girl well, to provide whatever they need and to give them the best childhood experience they could possibly have. Yet, the love I have for them is so infinitely small compared to God’s love for us in Christ. Matthew 7:9-11 says, “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
So, here’s the question, “Do you trust that God will give you all that you need?” It all rides on this. If you don’t, you are experiencing great toil and the toil will increase. If you do, peace will guard your heart.
The underlying reason for this trust is Jesus crucified. God’s one and only Son came to this earth and experienced the full condemnation in our stead. He, who had spent eternity past with his Daddy, came willingly to the people who had (and do) rebel against Him to die. In the garden, He did not fear the nails that would be put in his hand, but rather He sweat blood because of the separation He was about to experience from the One who had always been with Him. Again, He did this so that we would never hear nothing, that we would always experience the Father’s presence and great love. He became nothing so that we could become sons! Romans 8:32 says, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”
Be encouraged: He is in control, He loves you infinitely more than you have been loved by your earthly dad, He will complete all that He started and He is so proud of you that He could bust because Jesus did what you could not do and lived the life you should have lived and died the death you should die. If you are in Christ, you are sons and daughters!
