The Mind of a Child

Last night, I was playing with my daughter, Lyric, and she reminded me of something very important; very common knowledge, but how many of us adults turn loose of common knowledge for the more complex worries of time, space, and air. Lyric reminded me that life is what you make it. Or more importantly, what God wants to make it.

I have a tendency to worry.....a lot. Some medical professionals hold to the theory that stress is the # 1 killer in the US. Why is it that we are so content to build unrealistic scenarios to worry about while we look, with patronizing grins, at our children who build unrealistic scenarios to dream and enjoy? Why is our lack of reality so "grown up" only when it is negative and stressful?
Why is a child's lack of reality, at the same time, looked at as "childish" merely for the reason that does not bring with it some "bad news" about the world around them.

I recently finished a podcast by Erwin McManus that deals with the thing of dreaming. WE need to get back to this thing of dreaming.

Is dreaming grounded in reality? Not always. But if it were, we would never have invention. If we don't have invention, we would not have the wheel, computers, TV, automobiles, flight, and the list goes on and on. What did God create you to dream?

At Genesis Church, we are starting explore this question. God created us all for a purpose much greater than we could ever imagine, but it is in this imagination - God-given imagination - that the story begins. We seek so desparately for meaning in superficial things, and forget that TRUE fulfillment (in other words, fulfilling life-purpose) comes from realizing God's purpose in us....IT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. Just ask God for His wisdom and insight into your dreams.....life will never be the same.

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