Greetings to you today,

I hope that you are well and enjoying the presence of our Father today. There is a little message that I shared a while back which I felt impressed to share here:

     "Children Are Carefree.....Are You?"

     You know, whenever you see children, you do not see them all caught up with their: schedules, their appointments, their bills, their relationship issues. You never see any of that, do you? Well, we were commanded by the Lord to come to Him and be humble as little children are. He went on to say that whoever did not become as a little child would not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Wow! Do we happen to think that Jesus was kidding when He said this? I don't think so. So what keeps us from being more like children in their: humility, awe and wonder, trusting nature and joy and excitement? I believe that it comes down to the 2 nasty words that we all hate, but cannot seem to entirely get rid of: Pride and Fear. They are on the flip-side of one coin. Much of the time, if we are not in fear, then we are in pride. Yet children tend to be constantly in the "safe zone" of Love. Love has no fear and is not proud. If we desire to be more childlike (obviously not "childish") then we need to simply focus on how children deal with things. First of all, it would not hurt any of us to watch children for awhile, somewhere, and see how they operate and try to imitate their wonderful little dynamics. Grown-up's probably need to take more lessons from children, now-a-days, then children do from grown-up's. We seem to always want children to "grow up" and even when we, ourselves were children, there was this desire within so many of us to grow up so fast, which came very often to many of us. Fortunately for some of us as children, we were encouraged to enjoy our youth and not to try and grow up too fast. Yet others were pretty much forced to grow up far too soon, and are probably now paying the price for it, years later, with multiple emotional/mental problems and difficulties. 

     Worry seems to be one of those chronic problems that plagues almost every adult. So how do we get rid of worry and cares? The word of God in 1 Peter 5, says: "Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time; casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." So there we have it: We have got to "cast our cares upon Him" in order to humble ourselves under His mighty hand. As we do this, God releases His GRACE unto our humility, which we need so very much from Him. This is how little children operate as well. If they have some type of problem that is too much for them to handle, they always bring it to their parent, and the parent takes care of it, because the parent cares for the little one. How much more our Heavenly Father? Let's bring our cares to God, by faith, and drop them off with Him. Then we can receive His grace, joy and peace in exchange. Sometimes you just need to voice it out loud as well, by faith, in order to experience it."Father, I give you this care of.........right now and I ask you to keep it away from me. I thank You for desiring to take it from me because You care for me so very much. Amen."

     I think that you can probably take this short little message from here and really go with it in whatever direction you know you need to. Yet be sure to not put it off as "not too important right now." Because, I do not know about you, but ANYTHING that the Lord says will "keep one from entering into Heaven," is worthy of constant consideration and focus.This is one of them......

May the Lord give you the ability to become as a little child again,

Rev. Jason Kruse