Laced With Grace – Christian Devotions

Faith As A Child

By Linda June 21, 2016 Faith

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“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and
knows the One who is leading.” Oswald Chambers

When I was a child, I never worried about the future. I didn’t fret about what tomorrow would bring. I didn’t try to control everything in my small world. I didn’t worry about where my life was heading or the circumstances I found myself in. I had no thought about how I would get my next meal or if the bills would be paid on time. I simply trusted that my Mom and Dad would take care of all that.

It wasn’t even a conscious thought. From the time of my birth I had been taken care of – fed, clothed, loved, and protected. When it was time to travel, I didn’t worry about the weather or the driving conditions or keeping safe. I allowed myself to be carried to the car, strapped in and taken wherever it was my parents wanted to take me. When I was sick, I didn’t have to frantically look around for help. My Mom and Dad took care of me.

When I was old enough to get around on my own two little legs, I didn’t have to worry about where I was going. There was always a hand to hold on to. If I happened to misstep and fall, there was a loving hand to pick me up and loving arms to comfort me. I was never allowed to wander too far off. Someone who loved me was always watching.

And now I am grown. I have lived long enough to know the terrible dangers life can hold. I know that life can sometimes take me where I don’t want to go. Illness can come when we least expect it. Accidents happen to even the nicest of people. Jobs can suddenly come to an end leaving us with crushing debt and no way out.

However, I am still Someone’s child. There is Someone who loves me and is taking very good care of me. There is Someone I can trust when I don’t know where life is taking me. Someone who will provide for me – who will take care of my every need.
He is there when I wander off or misstep and fall, ready to pick me up with His strong right hand.

If, by faith, I will put my life in His hands I can rest on His promise that He has a plan to prosper me. I may not know the details of that plan, but I know the One who has made the promise. He is faithful. He will never leave me or forsake me. He will lead me in the paths of righteousness. Nothing will ever separate me from His love.

I am once again a little child – throwing myself into the arms of the One who will never let me fall. I don’t have to know where we are going. I know Him.

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!  I John 3:1

Blessings,

Linda

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