I Don't Wanna Grow Up!

Imagine, if you will, being in a rocket ship.  Waiting in a small space for the final "blast-off".  The excitement and anticipation growing as you will soon be traveling to new and far off places.  You hear mission control saying that you are good for launch.  So you strap yourself down and wait. 

Everything is good until your uncle comes home. . . now, imagine as you (formerly known as mission control) are asked if you know where your cousin (his son / aka the astronaut / aka Jay) might be.  I couldn't tell my uncle that he was in the rocket ship awaiting for blast-off. . . so I just said in a very timid voice. . ."I don't know".  Well, you can imagine how difficult it would be to hide an entire rocket ship in the house . . . so it did not take long for the would be astronaut to be found.  The "rocket" was actually their front loading dryer.  Now, don't laugh if you think about it there is some resemblance. . . especially to a kid.  His dad did threaten to turn the dryer on . . . but came up with other forms of "determent" for us to not take any more space journeys using the dryer.

My childhood is filled with memories of imaginary journeys and adventures.  I am also sure that most of you reading this have your own memories.  But somewhere along the way those journeys and adventures were replaced with jobs and responsibilities.  Somewhere along the way we were taught to grow up and be an adult.  In so many ways that changed things.  We are programmed to over analyze and over think stuff.  We can't just have those naive thoughts that everything would just be OK.  We have to make lists of the pros and cons.  We have to consider the possible risks and losses.  Now we are in the "real world" of adulthood!

Well. . . I don't wanna grow up!  AND . . . I think Jesus would agree with me! Look at what he said:

Mark 10:14-15:

He (Jesus) said to them, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children. 15 I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Do you see what Jesus said?  It is only with the child like faith that we can enter into the Kingdom.  It is that simple faith and trust that He is who He said He is.  It is the faith of a child when they throw themselves into their daddy's arms knowing that he will catch them.  A child does not sit and calculate the distance of the jump or the mass body weight index compared to the relative strength of the individual catching. . . no, they just jump!  That's faith!  And it is not "blind" faith either.  The child has faith because they know their dad.  They know that he has never dropped them before.  They don't even think of the possibility of anything else but being caught when they jump, being picked up when they fall, being loved when they are hurt, and being accepted and encouraged to be the best they can be.


Well, I say be a kid . . .especially when it comes to faith in your heavenly daddy.  Dream those impossible dreams.  Step, no jump, out on faith.  For nothing is impossible with God.  Don't try and figure it all out.  Just trust and believe that God loves you so much that He sent His one and only Son, Jesus, to this world to die so that you might live.  Don't try and understand it all . . . just accept it by faith.  Trust Him to lead and guide you.  You may not always have all the answers, but He does!  Yes, you might want to stay out of the dryers . . . but if your faith is in the everlasting creator of the ends of the Earth . . . you will soar to heights you could never do on your own.


Bro. D