Lessons From The Playground

O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him! Psalm 34:8 NASB

Ok guys, here it goes. I've never blogged before and I can't promise that I'm going to be any good at it either... But I have some things on my heart that I would like to share.
God is so good. I am so thankful for every breath that He has blessed me with. I am content with where I am in life and daily I try to thank God for this journey that I am on because it is only by His grace that I am where I am...
For those of you who don't know where I am, I am a student at the International House of Prayer University, 'aka' IHOPU, not to be confused with the pancake restaurant. :) I am a first year student and so far, I am being completely ruined by the love of my Father. Day after day I am experiencing newer and deeper revelations of His love and purpose for me and humanity in general. His love letter to us has come alive to me in a new and experiencial way that I can't help but fall more madly in love with Him. :)

I have been meditating the last few days about becoming like a child again... Something that Stuart Greaves said the other day in my 'Existence and Majesty of God' class has stuck with me and has been constantly following me everywhere I go. I want to go before my Father with the heart of a child, regardless of the current situation, always being childlike in my faith and trust in my Daddy. I want to trust that my Daddy is right ALL the time, if it says it in the Bible, I want to believe it and trust Him that He is always right... because He is always right. I may not understand, but I do know that if He says it, it's true.
So in that, I want to go back to the playground days. Not physically of course (playgrounds are dirty). But the attitude of every child at the playground when they talk to others is that their daddy is always right. It doesn't matter what subject they are talking about, if their daddy said it then it's right. Period. No questions asked. In an arguement when two kids cannot find common ground, the bottom line for each kid is my daddy is right and yours is wrong. Then when that fails, punches are thrown... Blood is shed... You get the point. :)
We as Christians need to have that childlike attitude that our Father is ALWAYS right. That doesn't mean that we should resort to violence if someone disagrees with us... haha. :) But to have that trust that no matter what this world tries to tell us, our Father is right. Period. No questions asked. It doesn't mean we need to understand everything that His Word says, because we will never ever understand everything, but we need to have faith that even in our lack of understanding, He is always True... it's who He is and He can never lie. Period. No questions asked.

I would like to finish this post with a quote from the 'Knowledge of the Holy' by A.W. Tozer.

"Every man lives by faith, the nonbeliever as well as the saint; the one by faith in natural laws and the other by faith in God. Every man throughout his entire life constantly accepts without understanding. The most learned sage can be reduced to silence with one simple question, 'What?' The answer to that question lies forever in the abyss of unknowing beyond any man's ability to discover. 'God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof,' (Job 28:23) but mortal man never."

Well, I'm done for today! I hope my blogging didn't start off too terrible. :))

May you be greatly blessed!