Like a child
Haven't thought about this for a while but I really miss being a child sometimes.
being filled with child like wonder from seeing things for the first time.
The first time I stepped into a cold country (Hong Kong when I was 10 I think) was so exhilarating! Usually cold air came out from the air-conditioner at home, not all around me! This was something so new...
I wonder if it's this childlike awe and appreciation that's part of how we should view God's word and Jesus' work on the cross for us. If I could reflect upon the act on the cross daily, with eyes newly opened and heart newly convicted I feel I would cherish each day I spend on earth for what it really is... a gift from God
Furthermore, being childlike implies a sense of humility, we don't know everything, we acknowledge that we can't get on without the help of someone older, more secure. Like a loving heavenly Father, who's there to carry us through the bad times. Or discipline us when necessary.
Having said that there's still that element of respect and reverance that has to be nurtured. When we get older we lose that, and it's most apparent through our attitude towards our parents or old people in general. We feel we're more than capable of taking charge of things by ourselves. It's so hard to submit ourselves to those we feel are 'not with the times'. Yet it's through this that we develop such bad habits of disregarding authority. It's so often in the media, where bunches of young people rise up to 'take charge'.
And yet we should foster this early, to admit our dependence on God and that we don't know everything. [Our arrogance will be our undoing] And put God where He belongs, seated on a heavenly throne and not in a book that we turn to when we're feeling down.
What would we do if we knew we were seating right now in the presence of a great and awesome King? Would we complain bitterly of how we've been treated? would we speak to Him casually like he was our equal or less? Would we act like He wasn't there and go on sinning and living selfish hollow lives chasing the dollar and surrounding ourselves with perishable earthly items?
Or would we fall to our knees and thank Him for all He's done for us...
More often than not i'm sure what i would do and i'm ashamed of it. Too arrogant, too impulsive, too tempted, too pampered and too worldly wise. All these I have to give up...
Oh to be like a child again.
being filled with child like wonder from seeing things for the first time.
The first time I stepped into a cold country (Hong Kong when I was 10 I think) was so exhilarating! Usually cold air came out from the air-conditioner at home, not all around me! This was something so new...
I wonder if it's this childlike awe and appreciation that's part of how we should view God's word and Jesus' work on the cross for us. If I could reflect upon the act on the cross daily, with eyes newly opened and heart newly convicted I feel I would cherish each day I spend on earth for what it really is... a gift from God
Furthermore, being childlike implies a sense of humility, we don't know everything, we acknowledge that we can't get on without the help of someone older, more secure. Like a loving heavenly Father, who's there to carry us through the bad times. Or discipline us when necessary.
Having said that there's still that element of respect and reverance that has to be nurtured. When we get older we lose that, and it's most apparent through our attitude towards our parents or old people in general. We feel we're more than capable of taking charge of things by ourselves. It's so hard to submit ourselves to those we feel are 'not with the times'. Yet it's through this that we develop such bad habits of disregarding authority. It's so often in the media, where bunches of young people rise up to 'take charge'.
And yet we should foster this early, to admit our dependence on God and that we don't know everything. [Our arrogance will be our undoing] And put God where He belongs, seated on a heavenly throne and not in a book that we turn to when we're feeling down.
What would we do if we knew we were seating right now in the presence of a great and awesome King? Would we complain bitterly of how we've been treated? would we speak to Him casually like he was our equal or less? Would we act like He wasn't there and go on sinning and living selfish hollow lives chasing the dollar and surrounding ourselves with perishable earthly items?
Or would we fall to our knees and thank Him for all He's done for us...
More often than not i'm sure what i would do and i'm ashamed of it. Too arrogant, too impulsive, too tempted, too pampered and too worldly wise. All these I have to give up...
Oh to be like a child again.
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