As a child I always knew that everything was going to be ok. If I got hurt there was usually someone right there to pick me up, clean me off and tell me it's ok. I, also knew, I would never go hungry or without what I needed for survival.
As an adult, well, I fall and it seems there is no one there to pick me up, dust me off and say it's going to be ok. I try to make my way and can't always find it. I struggle and complain and even get grumpy.
The difference is, a child looks up to adults to fulfill their needs. They are little and everything is so big in that world. It's just natural for children to expect that things will be taken care of because they haven't learned to take care of themselves. That is childlike faith. A faith that is effortless because they trust completely and don't rely on their own understanding or abilities.
Psalm 116:6 NLT says, "The Lord protects those of childlike faith; I was facing death, and he saved me."
Do you see where I'm going with this? As adults, we tend to look to our own abilities to get through trials and life. We are too busy looking to us...to see Him. We don't look from the childlike prospective to see just how BIG God really is.
God wants us to look to Him as a child looks to their parents. Children have a natural faith in their parents because they trust them. They have no reason not to.
Why don't we have that same childlike faith in God? He has proven over and over that He is faithful and will take care of us. Just because we don't stop and take notice of what He's done or is doing doesn't mean He isn't there doing it.
Scripture makes it clear that we should live with childlike faith so that trials and life don't have to depress us or drive us insane. God wants us to enjoy life and learn from the things we view as storms. Those storms, that we hate, are life lessons God is using to teach His children. A childlike trust in God will lead us to expect the unexpected and to fully trust that we will be taken care of.
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