T: TRUST that is childlike
I have spent several weeks before being able to write this post. I have been trying to find what best describes the unique child-like trust.
How many of us take the ability to walk and move around for granted. Can we think of the time when we as babies first learnt how to stand, to crawl and then unsteadily to walk. How often we must have fallen down and as many times our parents and guardians picked us up and taught us how to walk.
How often do we also falter during our spiritual walk; and fall down. As often, we have a Father to pick us up.
I have wondered what is it that enables the child to finally walk confidently; his innate sense of balance and movement or the training he receives from his loved ones! A little bit of both I guess.
Likewise God knows how we are fashioned; with an innate image of his likeness, but marred by sin. Every time we fall down, He is there to pick us up and hep us walk.
The child's trust therefore is not just the child's innate sense of what he can perform....but much much more in the trust that he has someone to pick him up every time he falls ...and if need be gives a hand to hold and if still the need arises then to be picked up and carried!!!
I love this verse from Isaiah 40 :11 "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." and often, when severely unable to walk my spiritual walk....I have felt the closeness of His bosom.
I am happy to have found this song which describes my situation:
How many of us take the ability to walk and move around for granted. Can we think of the time when we as babies first learnt how to stand, to crawl and then unsteadily to walk. How often we must have fallen down and as many times our parents and guardians picked us up and taught us how to walk.
How often do we also falter during our spiritual walk; and fall down. As often, we have a Father to pick us up.
I have wondered what is it that enables the child to finally walk confidently; his innate sense of balance and movement or the training he receives from his loved ones! A little bit of both I guess.
Likewise God knows how we are fashioned; with an innate image of his likeness, but marred by sin. Every time we fall down, He is there to pick us up and hep us walk.
The child's trust therefore is not just the child's innate sense of what he can perform....but much much more in the trust that he has someone to pick him up every time he falls ...and if need be gives a hand to hold and if still the need arises then to be picked up and carried!!!
I love this verse from Isaiah 40 :11 "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young." and often, when severely unable to walk my spiritual walk....I have felt the closeness of His bosom.
I am happy to have found this song which describes my situation:
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