With Christmas coming up, each night we have been reading through a little advent book that our church gave out. After dinner Jon reads Caleb a short paragraph about a certain aspect of the Christmas story. Caleb has enjoyed it because after he listens to the short story, he gets a piece of chocolate candy from our advent calendar. Last night was about the wise men who brought gifts to Jesus. At the end, Jon asked Caleb what he could give to Jesus since it was his birthday. Caleb's adamantly responded, "I don't want Jesus to play with my trains." Soon after he included, "I don't want Jesus to play with my cars," Jon asked, "Well then what are you going to give Jesus?" Caleb said "a heart". I said, "That is right," excited and proud of our son's Sunday school answer, "you can give Jesus your heart." Caleb then interrupted, "No, not MY heart!" Abby has work to do if Caleb won't share with Jesus either, but obviously we have a ways to go on understanding how faith works! But, it made me think how often do we as adults hold back our most precious possessions from God, our "cars" and "trains" and even our "hearts"? This year, I hope to take some time to think about the "cars" and "trains" in my life that I need to give to Jesus. We can all benefit from remembering James 1:17:
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
We shouldn't hold back things in our life from God. It must appear rather ridiculous to Him. Everything we have is from God. I should be able to trust Him with these things!
4 comments:
"From the mouth of babes..."
so true kelly! And your photography is awesome!
And...Romans 14:...19...Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another...Thank goodness we continue to learn things from our heavenly father. Love,
Great points Kelly!! It's so important to remember that all that we have is Gods! We're only borrowing!
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