Ramblings

Yesterday was super awesome church time! The focus was all about what we need to do to really serve God. Lots of good stuff to take away from the messages but the big ones that I took away was to seek Him first and having that childlike faith. Seeking God first is not as easy as it sounds and neither is really trusting Him. The walk on water trust.

Let me explain what it means to be devoted to something. To be be truly dedicated to a cause, a purpose in effort to better ones life...to better many peoples lives.

My daughter Jaden is a total sweetheart. She is also the slowest three year old on the face of the earth. Not slow in the "not so bright" sense but slow in that everything she does takes three times longer than anybody else. I am not exaggerating. Every morning, just getting out of the house takes longer than my whole morning process. I can get dressed, do my hair, have my coffee and coat ready with keys in hand and Jaden will still be putting her right foot through her pant leg.
Jaden does not multi task. I think multi tasking is something we force on ourselves in adulthood because we are not born with the ability to focus hard on two things at once, living in our go go go world we eventually evolve into multi tasker's. As a result of this multi tasking evolution we end up multi tasking everything we do. Dishes while cleaning, Praise and worship while vacuuming, breakfast and driving you see where I am going with this.
Not Jaden though. She does one thing at a time giving each moment her utmost devotion. attention and diligence. At story time she reads books two or three times until she fully understands the whole story. At bedtime she has a certain posse of stuffed animals that must lay beside her and be tucked in with prayer requests, hugs and kisses. In the morning, when selecting the one stuffed animal she will be taking to school and sleeping with at nap time, she takes her time evaluating the snuggle factor and who she has already taken to school giving each toy equal love and attention.
Yes it drives me up the wall. Yes I nag her more than I wait patiently on her. Yes I wish I had her devotion.
No matter how early I set my alarm clock, no matter how long I read the word I am not as devoted as Jaden. I am not as trusting either.
Jaden, like all children are living for the moment because they trust that the next moment will come all on its own. When they say their prayers they trust that God hears every word the first time they pray.
Last night I asked Jaden if she had any prayer requests and she said "nope". I said " how about we ask God to bless our family and keep everybody safe?" to which Jaden replied " mom we already did." And she was right, we already did. God already heard that request. Jaden trusted that all it took was the one time and we didn't need bug him with the repeat prayers. Then she said" since we don't have new prayer requests can we sing an extra song?"
So here she is, trusting the Lord that anything we ask in his name is given to us according to his will. Now she wants to sing extra songs to Him. ( we have only been singing worship songs at bedtime to help her not have bad dreams). Technically Jaden was asking me if she could worship a little longer. ahhhhh.

Now to her she probably just wanted to stay up a little later. But to me it was more than that.
Now again, I may be like five steps behind everybody else and this is old news. But if its not then I urge every person that reads this to just worship God a little longer instead of reciting the same needs and wants to God. God already knows our hearts and he already knows our needs so lets appreciate him a little longer. Lets not worry about time and deadlines if we can help it. Lets do one thing at a time and trust that each moment and day will come when its supposed to according to Gods will. And if anybody is like me and just wants to know what God's calling is then stay in the word and stay at his feet until we find out what it is.

Let's try to be alittle more like the children of God he has already called us to be.