Coming to God as a Child!

As a youth minister I have to be able to come to God like a little child in order to speak to other children what it looks like to come to Him. Tonight I even taught a little bit on the difference between when we first come to Christ as children and then when we try to come to Him as adults. As children we have very few filters that seeing and understanding God gets caught up in but as we get older we gain more and more filters that we sifen our own ideas or beliefs or perspectives on who, or maybe even what, God is. For a child if Jesus says "nothing is impossible with God" than well nothing must be impossible with God. But, as adults we tend to add our own definition to what Jesus says by maybe bringing up context or grammar or personal experiences so that "nothing is impossible with God" becomes "nothing is impossible with God [except... or unless...]."
Being a youthful adult it is very difficult at times the promises that God makes in the Word and actually living like they are true. No matter what I have gone through in my life or experienced God's Word is everlasting and remains the same: it never changes. Jesus wasn't kidding when He said this and He definitely didn't add any condition to it and yet I often find myself living as if He had. I can't do ministry with that kind of mindset. I actually have to believe that God is who He says He is and that Jesus really meant what He said or else what do I have to offer a student when they come up to me and tell me someone they know might have cancer, which 3 students have told me this so far. Without the truth, without God, without the reality that anything is possible with God, what hope can we possibly have?
The truth about the Creator of Heaven and Earth and His Spirit living inside us is that He is not only the God who brings healing to our physical bodies but He also transforms lives from the inside out. So, in this world filled with crazy confusing, painful, circumstances we have hope in Christ who said that all things are possible. God help me to be that little child who just believes.

B.