Do you remember being a child and singing those songs in Vacation Bible School? My God is so BIG, so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do. Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Or maybe you never went to church as a child and did not know the songs. If you didn't get to sing those songs as a child, children believe them. They sing those songs with the faith of an innocent child. They must be true because my Sunday School teacher says they're true. Children are unencumbered by the evils of the world. They have no doubts, only faith.As we grow to adults, those songs become a distant memory like Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. Maybe those songs fall into the same category. Maybe joy, peace, love and truth are just for the innocent children to believe. We become so tainted as adults with everyday life and our trials and tribulations we forget that innocence and that faith. We cannot return to that innocence but we can reclaim that faith.
I was such an outsider at church. My family didn't go with me as a young teen. My parents mocked my warnings of hell and their need to be saved. Everyone had learned those VBS songs and I didn't know them. Everyone had been through Sunday School classes and learned the books of the Bible. Everyone understood God's grace and mercy, and I was still in the dark. I wanted what everyone else had already gotten. I wanted to be on the inside like them. Yet, I wondered why God would want me. I didn't know all the right words to pray. I wasn't raised in the church. It's taken me 36 years to realize, He does want me. He wants all of us. We just have to be willing to hold out our hand and accept the call. We have to be willing to step forward in faith and believe that our God IS so big and SO mighty, there is nothing He cannot do. He made us all with a purpose. God is still the same God we sang about as a child and believed in with the faith of a child. We can and should have that same faith today.
Our dear Molly dog died in June. I have always wanted a pug and this seemed like the right time. What we didn't know is that God had been working on it for a year before we knew we wanted one. We are being blessed with not one, but two pugs in a way that only God could have orchestrated. We are going today to pick them up.
