“For
the LORD your God has arrived to live among you. He is a mighty
savior. He will rejoice over you with great gladness. With His
love, He will calm all your fears. He will exult over you by singing
a happy song.” Zephaniah 3:17
When I
was in Haiti, I remember one of the young girls asking a very
specific question: “why do you love children?”
At
first, I was taken aback; I was shocked that this girl was actually
asking us why we loved children, as if she needed proof It wasn't a
question asked in an accusing way, but with genuine wonder. My
immediate response is because Jesus does, and tells us to, because I
couldn't quite articulate a response. But, one of the other gals
with me was so on point when she reminded the girl, and the rest of
us, that Jesus called us to have faith like all of them, like little
children..and that is why we love children, because Jesus did AND
because He called us to live with child like faith.
This
faith is pure, and not worried with the anxieties of the world.
When I
think through the names of God, “child” always makes me think
because I rarely contemplate God as coming to us as anyone younger
than the Jesus we know. But He did. Bound in human flesh, He came,
for us...and He calls us to have faith like children, like the child
that He came to us as.
In all
of the things I am feeling in my mind and heart, I have to remind
myself that I need to love Jesus like a child would. I need to see
Him as a Father, not as a God who is constantly waiting for me to do
better, but as one who loves unconditionally.
In
Christ,
Lilia
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