Simple Faith - Part Two

The dialog you read yesrterday has been listened to all over the world by millions of people. Why? I think the answer is simple. The thing at the very center of this story, the one thing that brought tears to my eyes, was the simplicity of Logan's faith - faith that was not the least bit complicated by all sorts of explanations/answers to the "why" question from a son, to his heavenly Father.  There wasn't a lot of baggage or drama between Logan and God, just simple dialog. It doesn't get any better than that for me.

How about you?  Is there anything -anything at all- that stands between you and childlike faith with Father God?  What is that thing that stands between you and God and keeps you from seeing Him for who He really is? From believing that He loves you, cares about you and wants you?

Dear ones, there is no thing too small or too great that you have done or that has been done to you which your Father God does not, will not or can not understand. He knows it all and He understands it all. Yes He does! Everything - He understands everything! 

If you are holding back, if you are feeling lost, alone, afraid, hopeless, ugly, fat, useless, unwanted, unloved, abandoned, rejected, afraid...whatever it is, will you talk to God about it? Don't clean it up or try to make it look prettier or better than it is. Resist the desire to explain it to God and just talk to Him about it. Lay it down at His feet.

Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. ~Proverbs 55:22

I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, and have not let my foes rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me.

O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit ~Psalm 30:1-3

Take your mustard seed faith and move toward God, trusting Him to understand everything!! You are more to God than all the dirt you may have collected in your life and/or all the dirty and ugly that has happened to you.

In the words of a 13 year boy, "God can use you. Even when you feel low and you think, "God is never going to use me" and "I'm just a piece of dirt." He'll actually use you. You're not a piece of dirt to God, you're a piece of gold."1 

Stephanie