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Saturday Thoughts on the Faith of Children
By Dan | July 19, 2008
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I don’t think there is any greater joy in this world than that of observing the faith of children. I love reading Bible stories to my son Reuel and listening to him fill in words that I leave out. I love seeing him fold his hands and pray every night, especially the addtional, “God bless . . .”es that he adds after I’m done suggesting names. Last night it was a joy to do family devotions and see our new little foster daughter also join in, doing the motions to “Little Visits with God”.
While I know that God calls us to this kind of faith it is so difficult to capture. I was reading the story of the fall of Jericho this morning early (Jos. 6) and this is actually the same story I’ve been reading to Reuel in his bed this week too, so it’s been really floating around a lot for me. Yet I just can’t quite imagine what it was like for the Israelites. They’re marching around a city and expecting God to perform a miracle on the 7th day. Now I know they’d just seen a miracle as they crossed the Jordan, but it still gives me the shivers to think about the kind of childlike trust they had even though they were adults. The story doesn’t phase Reuel either. Of course the walls of Jericho fell.
God grant us all that childlike trust no matter what challenges we are facing.
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July 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
When did you get a foster daughter and how are things going? I’m excited to meet her…
Erin