Father has had me meditating on child-like trust and faith, I recently preached on it at our church. The orphan heart is rooted in a belief system that at it's core is that I am alone and can trust no one but myself. So the need to be child-like in trust to receive Father's love smacks head-on to the orphan heart and invites us to throw ourselves unreservedly into the loving arms of our Father. It is like a little boy or little girl who jumps carefree into the waiting arms of their daddy without a question that they will be caught. Yet we live in an orphan planet that questions trusting anyone else unless I figure out it is too my benefit, in this world to blindly trust is to get hurt. As I was sick yesterday, napping, and trying to recover I decided to watch "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and I forgot how wonderful it is to get lost in such magnificent tales of adventure, magic, and royalty. I loved in the story as they step into the world of Narnia, instantly they are reminded of their true identity as noble, honorable, and good kings and queens. It is only when we see ourselves in a heavenly setting that we will truly remember our true identity and purpose. Being mired in an orphan world with constant lying, cheating, manipulating, stealing, backbiting, and selfish ambition we are deluded to believe we are not noble in character and identity. You and as children of the Father of glory are amazing and brilliant people, who are often not recognized by the darkness around us and at times not see by our own family, friends, and even ourselves. Could it be that you are far more brilliant, honorable, and good than is commonly seen? It is only when we allow the Holy Spirit to take the Word of God and our child-like imagination that the truth is opened up to us. Since you have been born-again and are a New Creation, filled with the Light of Christ you are truly from another world. It is this wonderful and innocent child-like imagination that opens up the realm of the unseen, to reveal mysteries and wanders. I believe Jesus lived as a child to His Father in constant child-like dependence but also in wander of the absolute goodness of His Father. I will even submit to you that this Father He knew so well, I believe also brought Him surprises at times. Children loved to be surprised by wonderful new things and adventures, Jesus lived with this type of innocence and wander. Jesus invitation to the disciples in Matthew 18:1-4 to become child-like was not to try it out just a little and return to orphan like living but to get lost like a child in the Father's world. Father has not only seated us in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6) and given us an inheritance (Romans 8:17) but invited us to partake of heavenly resources (Philippians 4:19). This is world of child-like imagination, adventure, and new realms that we must have simple trust to see opened up to us. As I went into our pre-service prayer, one of our intercessors said that an unusual thing happened that morning, that there was two large warrior angels who had come in. My orphan thinking started to go off about, yeah right large angels, can you really see them, ...... All this unbelief and orphan ways, til in a child-like way I could delight in a Father that knew my need for protection and deployed two large angels to watch over me and the message I would deliver. When I let myself enter His world, I saw that the message I was about to deliver was significant and that people's lives would be greatly changed and transformed. See in Father's world we are someone and in His world supernatural and even mysterious things can happen because His world (heaven) operates by different laws.
A little boy with a BIG DAD,
Bret
P.S. You can check out my sermon at www.bridgeway.us under sermons. Enjoy.
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