Childlike Faith

This morning in church we launched into a 5 or 6 week series on the book of Hebrews. Our pastor challenged us to read the entire book during this time, after all it is only 13 chapters. The Pastor spoke on not finding ourselves "drifting" when it comes to God. We need to actively seek God in everything we do. Seek Him so we don't fall in to complacency or allow "little" pockets of sin to creep in and take over our lives. Yes God forgives sin BUT it doesn't mean we have a free pass to sin all we like just to fall under the umbrella of grace. It really hit me again today that God calls us to be Christians or a "little Christ". When we pursue Jesus it helps Him bring our lives into perspective. We remember what is really important...not the things of this world but eternal things...

This actually happened recently so I have also typed this up to send along on the internet via email, so I thought this fit in here as well.

Recently my still young-at-heart Mother had a conversation with her grandson. While discussing his upcoming 7th birthday party he asked her,
"Grandma, when did you know that you wanted to be with Jesus?"
Her reply,"Since I was a little younger than you are now."
His response was,"You are probably old enough to go be with Jesus and Grandpa by now." (smile)He did not mean to say she was old BUT...

A little later after some further thought he said, "You are probably excited to go see Grandpa and Jesus."
To which Grandma grinning replied,"Oh... I think I'll stay here a little longer."
In his innocence he asked , "Why?" She explained that God had not called her home yet so she must still have things left to do here.

What strikes me about this whole exchange is the innocence I had forgotten...Why would we want to stay here when we can go be with Jesus? We need to refocus ourselves on Eternal things not worldly things. As someone recently pointed out in a sermon I heard "You can't take it with you!"

When we focus on God with that Child-like faith it makes us yearn for Home. To be at Home with Jesus. One little boy understands that very clearly and has made his aunt reevaluate how she looks at things.