It was naptime. Three-year-old HayJae stared out the expansive livingroom windows that overlooked a sea of grass waving in the wind. "This is my home," she reasoned. I agreed. Lying in my lap, she looked up at me with her pensive brown eyes and said, "God is bigger than the whole wide world." I wondered, where is this child going with this line of thought?
"He is?"
"Yes, He can't fit in our house."
"Well, where does he live?"
"I think in a castle."
"I see. Does anyone live with Him?"
"I don't know. Maybe the stars."
"Well, Jesus lives with Him."
A scowl of incredibility filled her face and she looked me in the eyes. She pulled her tiny hands over her chest and said with all the adamant kindness she could muster, "No, Grama, He doesn't. Jesus lives in our hearts."
"Well, yes, but He also sits on a big throne next to God in Heaven." HayJae closed her eyes and thought a minute. Her face filled with a look of pure exasperation with me. When she finally opened her eyes, she spoke in short careful sentences.
"But, Jesus lives with us, too. He lives in our hearts." She patted her chest. "And He tells us what to do. And sometimes we don't do it."
What wisdom from a child. Sometimes we are just as stubborn, tempermental and selfish as a toddler. Sometimes we insist on our way without a care for the feelings of our sisters and brothers. Sometimes we say things that should be controlled. Sometimes we are impatient and irritated. Sometimes we act before we think. We forget that Jesus is in our hearts and live like He isn't. Sometimes He tells us what to do and we just don't do it.
Is Jesus telling you to do something today? Will you do it? selahV
[copyrighted, SelahV Today, 2008]
