ARCHIVED POST: Faith Like A Child

Originally Written and Posted: October 24, 2014

I was teaching our preschool children's ministry a few weeks ago. The Bible story was about God’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12). God called Abraham to move, even though he didn’t know where to- but he went because God told him to. He believe in God’s promise that He would take care of him and bless him and generations to come.

I asked the kids what they would do if God told them to move. Would they follow God where He told them to go? They all responded “Yes! I would go where God told me to go!”.

What if we all had the faith of these toddlers? Its so simple. They know God is good. They know God loves them. They know God takes care of them. Their little minds aren’t crowded with the details and doubts and fears like us adults. They don’t have those obstacles obstructing their view of God’s goodness. They don’t filter God’s promises through the muddiness of life experiences that jade our perspective.  They just trust. They just believe.

I was really challenged by these little hearts. In the New Testament, Jesus tells us to have faith like the children (Matthew 18:3). I think this is what He meant. Faith to trust God above our own knowledge. To have faith in what He says above what we have experienced. To trust in God’s character more than our circumstances.

I think sometimes our circumstances are more real to us than God. We’ve experienced this or that- we’ve struggled, we’ve endured… the memory of our experiences seem closer to us than God.

But the thing is, God is bigger than our circumstances. He is master of all things. He is always good, even in the bad times- our circumstances don’t change God’s goodness. He is always working on our behalf to grow us into who He created us to be.

We have to trust in Him more than we trust in ourselves. We have to have that simple faith like a child to believe in Him with our heart without letting our mind cloud our faith.

Do what He tells you to do. Go where He tells you to go. And do it joyfully because His promise is always good- He will always take care of us.