Matthew 18:3
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
That is not a very understood or lived out verse in our culture, it was not then and certainly not now. I , for many reason had to become an adult at an early age to help on those farms and after my moms car wreck.
We are all about teaching our children how to be adults . Sure we have to learn skills and be educated in the world to get by. We are to be as a child, to learn from God and we do not become full adults till we die. Meaning we should learn from Him until we die. If we try and learn from God as we learn from the world we do not learn what the Kingdom can do and is. We are taught to memorize words to spell or books to have worldly knowledge. If we do not go to that Bible as a child and ask God to teach us , then we become as the Pharisee that could quote Scriptures.
Something happened yesterday that brought this verse to mind.
We have a pretty old dog that has out lived 3 others , the wilds of Montana and a Texas snake bite. His health is failing and he has many bumps and lumps. I use to have money to take him to the Vet every time he got sick. The last few years I have had to call on God for his healing and use natural remedies that God has provided. Last night something happened and I felt he would not make it through the night. So I comforted him , gave him some melatonin and laid hands on him and prayed for God to not let him suffer.
I wake to a hungry, tail wagging dog. I thought about how I had settled in my mind he would die in the night . This is what the Lord showed me in all this ...
Life and death is in His hands , we can not look at life as the world looks at life. He can take something that seems near death and bring it back to life , that is Who He is. God knows my heart and knows I have doubts about His call in my life and it seems there is not life in it, from the worlds point of view.
Life and Death is not what we make it ...He is truly amazing if we look at Him with child like eyes.
Teach your loved ones to go to God as a child , learn from Him as a child...Listen to children before the world removes that sponge like mind... Watch what He does even in our tiny circle of life with the things we care about. He does not speak to us not as we speak to each other or as the world speaks .
I may know the true answer one day but there is great purpose in how God created memory before we where six years old and how we lose it as we get older ...It may be a dog , it may be a job , it may be a book or even a person , that seems near death...But whatever it is , God is in charge of life and death in all things for His purpose...Remember this life is all about the next. As I near the end of the so called old testament, we see Micah speaks of Jesus hundreds of years before Jesus . In fact most times when God used someone in this life, it was for the generations to come...Be a child today not as the world says but as Jesus said...I spent a lot of time trying to be and relive that childhood I missed that did not matter. What God allowed me to see in the last 24 hours is greater than any fun I might have missed or did not experience.. Souls is all that matters in this life and He uses things this very minute or hundreds of years from now...That Cross we could only look at the suffering or the Life it gave...
And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
That is not a very understood or lived out verse in our culture, it was not then and certainly not now. I , for many reason had to become an adult at an early age to help on those farms and after my moms car wreck.
We are all about teaching our children how to be adults . Sure we have to learn skills and be educated in the world to get by. We are to be as a child, to learn from God and we do not become full adults till we die. Meaning we should learn from Him until we die. If we try and learn from God as we learn from the world we do not learn what the Kingdom can do and is. We are taught to memorize words to spell or books to have worldly knowledge. If we do not go to that Bible as a child and ask God to teach us , then we become as the Pharisee that could quote Scriptures.
Something happened yesterday that brought this verse to mind.
We have a pretty old dog that has out lived 3 others , the wilds of Montana and a Texas snake bite. His health is failing and he has many bumps and lumps. I use to have money to take him to the Vet every time he got sick. The last few years I have had to call on God for his healing and use natural remedies that God has provided. Last night something happened and I felt he would not make it through the night. So I comforted him , gave him some melatonin and laid hands on him and prayed for God to not let him suffer.
I wake to a hungry, tail wagging dog. I thought about how I had settled in my mind he would die in the night . This is what the Lord showed me in all this ...
Life and death is in His hands , we can not look at life as the world looks at life. He can take something that seems near death and bring it back to life , that is Who He is. God knows my heart and knows I have doubts about His call in my life and it seems there is not life in it, from the worlds point of view.
Life and Death is not what we make it ...He is truly amazing if we look at Him with child like eyes.
Teach your loved ones to go to God as a child , learn from Him as a child...Listen to children before the world removes that sponge like mind... Watch what He does even in our tiny circle of life with the things we care about. He does not speak to us not as we speak to each other or as the world speaks .
I may know the true answer one day but there is great purpose in how God created memory before we where six years old and how we lose it as we get older ...It may be a dog , it may be a job , it may be a book or even a person , that seems near death...But whatever it is , God is in charge of life and death in all things for His purpose...Remember this life is all about the next. As I near the end of the so called old testament, we see Micah speaks of Jesus hundreds of years before Jesus . In fact most times when God used someone in this life, it was for the generations to come...Be a child today not as the world says but as Jesus said...I spent a lot of time trying to be and relive that childhood I missed that did not matter. What God allowed me to see in the last 24 hours is greater than any fun I might have missed or did not experience.. Souls is all that matters in this life and He uses things this very minute or hundreds of years from now...That Cross we could only look at the suffering or the Life it gave...
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