“The father instantly cried out, “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!””

Mark 9:24 NLT

We have been so busy lately that we haven’t been posting nearly enough. We will be bringing back regular posts going forward! Don’t worry, we have been reading our Bible every day and praying as a family. Watching our son lately has led me to write this post.

God is our father. He created all of us and his ways are awesome, but how strong is our faith? Is our faith in God, our father, the Lord, the Creator of everything as strong as the faith our son has in his father? My son is 30 inches tall, I am 72 inches tall. When I throw him up into the air, his head is over 90 inches off of the ground, and if he falls; something bad will happen. Yet, throughout the entire process, his smile never fades. He has faith that his father will not let him fall, will not abandon him, will not forsake him. With all the highs and lows of life, when we are entering a low, we feel helpless and forget that our God will catch us.

“Then he said, “I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.””

Matthew 18:3 NLT

Watching our son every day has made me understand what Jesus meant in Matthew 18. Children love with reckless abandon. They love fully and completely, holding nothing back. The love of a child is the closest thing I believe I will ever witness to the love Jesus showed for us 2000 years ago. They live in awe! Jesus lived in awe of life, in awe of God, and in awe of humanity. When people encountered Jesus, they were inspired to live in awe. My son is like Jesus in that he is full of the wonder of life. As we go through life and suffer hardships along the way; we become thick-skinned, and without realizing it, we lose this quality.

Paul instructs us in 2 Corinthians 5:7 to “walk by faith and not by sight”. Sometimes, this can be the hardest part of being a Christian. We had a conversation recently about the Rapture. Of course, “If it happened right now, where would you be”?, came up. We had a hard time answering affirmatively to that question. We wanted to say without a shadow of a doubt that we would be with Jesus, but we couldn’t.

Not only that, but we were taught at our most vulnerable a false doctrine. At a young age in a broken public school system we were led to put faith in a Big Bang, evolution, and a 4.54 billion-year-old Earth by those we respected, our teachers. This broken foundation has led to some difficulties in our faith. Unlike our son, we were not immersed in a Christian upbringing. We were not taught scripture, and we did not read the Bible as a family.

The Word of God is like an excavator. It rips away our broken beliefs. Slowly we start to build a new foundation. A strong foundation built on the Word of God. God made us in his image, we sinned, Jesus died for our sins, and if we accept him we get to spend eternity with him in paradise. I can confidently say that despite my early indoctrination, I admit I am a sinner, ask for repentance, and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

Only God knows my heart, but I hope if the Rapture comes, we could both run into the arms of Jesus with childlike faith!