Thought for Saturday, December 1st

December 1, 2012

Kid’s Games and Christian Living

Is there A Connection

Part Three

“Most amusements only mean trying to win.”

-       Rudyard Kipling

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.  But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.  Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

Luke 18:15-17

Today I want to look at one last children’s game and what it can say to us about our spiritual life.

Finally let us look at the game of Hide and Seek.  The game requires everyone playing to hide while one person counts.  Then that person the ‘It’ person has to find everyone and tag them before they get back to base. This game often describes the real world of how many of us, as Christians try to live.  We think we can hide from God and when He invariably finds us we want to run to a safety spot and call base so that God can’t tag us and maybe expect something from us. (This application may be a bit of a stretch but the truth of what it implies is still the truth)

How often do we try to avoid God by hiding behind our justification and rationalizations that we are doing enough or we have got it all together spiritually?

We need to learn that there is no hiding place where God can not find us, just look to the writings of David for confirmation of this.

Again as in Hot Potato, we should hunger to be found by God and desire to be tagged for opportunities to serve and honor Him.

These applications may not be as directly associational as some might like things to be: but it does demonstrate for us that if we are willing to be open to the prospects and possibilities of what God could show us and teach us through unlimited sources and resources, there is almost always something that we can learn from almost everything we experience.  This is why we need to stay child like in our openness to the possibilities of God.  We need to have unquestioning faith to believe anything and everything is possible.  And we need to be child like enough to believe our Father is bigger, better, greater and more awesome than anything in the world could ever be.

If we can have that kind of heart, spirit and mind towards God and the things of His kingdom, there is nothing He can’t use to teach us, touch us, equip us and enable us to do greater and more wonderful things for Him.

Today’s Prayer

Father, I know I will always be a child in your eyes: but help me to also always be a child in heart, spirit, faith, hope and love towards you and the things you want to do in my life.