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'Thomas the Train-like faith!'
[YP's Blog]
03/11/2010
By Addison, Scott
If you are a parent I think you would agree that raising your children is one of the most challenging feats that you will ever undertake. From the grueling routine of bottles and diapers, to the times in the restaurant that you know everyone is wishing you would pack your family up and leave! It is on this thought that I want to ask the question, what could Jesus have meant when he said in Matt 10:15 that whosoever didn't receive the kingdom as a little child would not enter in (paraphrased)?
I do believe that he is talking about the level of faith that children have. I can tell my 3 and 4 year olds that we are going to drive to China and the only question that would be asked is, "when will we get there?" They trust everything that I say. And to that end they are pretty much being molded into the image I present to them. Jesus is saying that we must be totally dependent upon the father and put our faith in him as a child would his parents.
However, I was trying to get my 3 year old to eat dinner today before he went into the family room to play and I believe I caught a greater glimpse of receiving the kingdom as a child. My three year old was so focused on his "Thomas the Train" that he didn't want to eat, sleep or talk. When I told him that he would have to eat his dinner before he could play, he did. As a matter of fact he did nothing more or nothing less. He ate his dinner and then asked to go play.
I believe so many times we get caught up in the distractions of this world and forget that God wants up to desire the kingdom as a little child would his favorite toy. We should do whatever it takes to enter than kingdom and keep our eye on that goal with tunnel vision. It would do some believers good to have that "Thomas the Train-like faith!"
Going Live with Christ
[YP's Blog]
02/01/2010
By Admin, Admin
This week I have worked so hard to get our new website ready to "go live". (Hope you like it, by the way) As I was working on getting some flash objects to display correctly the thought hit me: What if we worked as hard to "go live" with the message of Christ as I have on this website. I think its amazing at what can steal our attention and what we invest our lives in. As I read the words of Christ when he exclaimed "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23), I wonder if the average believer really personifies that type of behavior.
I'm not writing this with anger or trying to hurt anyones feelings. But I think we would all feel challenged if we were to examine our own lives. I know that many of us try to live our lives with excellence and do everything we do "as unto the Lord". But how much of that does Jesus really get the glory from. I was at a religious event recently and the person I was sitting with blurted out, "Oh my goodness". I said, "what?!?!" They said, "that person right there, I wouldn't have thought they would have been here, they just never acted like a Christian." Okay, before I'm flooded with emails I realize that we are not to judge anyone. But didn't Christ instruct us that we would know a tree by the fruit it bears. Doesn't mean that we should all be bearing fruit, behaving in such a manner that shows what, or who we believe in.
Which leads me to the purpose of my rambling, what if we were to "go live" with Christ. Personally I believe that we would turn our communities upside down with the love and hope that could only come from Jesus. Just imagine what that would be like... to "go live" with Christ. If you can imagine, just read the book of Acts and I think you will be as challenged as I am.
