What are some of your childhood memories?

Were you able to play freely outside on summer days and just check in at home for lunch and dinner? Did you have to take on grown-up responsibilities to help at home? Do you have pleasant thoughts of one-on-one time with your parents? We each have childhood experiences that play into who we become.

As infants, we were designed by God to be completely dependent upon our mother. As children, we were completely dependent upon our parents. And, as children of God, we are to be completely dependent on our heavenly Father. Our needs continue as we mature and as we grow in our faith, and God continues to be the source of provision.

Isn’t it encouraging that the God we serve is relational? The Godhead is three in one. The family of God, locally and globally, is the body of believers – and Jesus prayed for unity among us (John 17:20-21). God puts us in individual families to grow physically and spiritually, practicing how to live out our faith. Life as a child helps paint a picture of our relationship with our heavenly Father.

As children need parents to:

-          teach them

-          feed them

-          shelter them

-          provide for them

-          protect them

-          love them

-          comfort them

-          be with them,

so we need God. Have you told him lately how much you need him?

He is the source of everything and without him we are nothing. He knows all the answers, but do we ask him with complete confidence in his response? James 1:5-6 encourages children of God, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind” (ESV). Will we have a humble heart to let God teach and direct us? May we each say with confidence, “My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:2 ESV, letter M in Do LAPS! Volume 2). There is no one greater whom we can trust to care for us!

As for love, not even a parent’s love can compare to God’s love for his children. God is love. This is how he showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. (1 John 4:8b-9).  

Let’s make more memories putting full faith in our heavenly Father.

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