OOPS--GOD LISTENS
Three-year-old Eden prays at bedtime, "Thank you, God, for making the ingredients to make toys." If that melts my heart, how much more does it melt God's heart?
How often do I offer words of thankfulness that profound, that simple to melt God's heart? How often do I complain about circumstances that are just plain hard to work through?
I love the Message translation of the Bible because for me it has the simplest yet most profound language. "Recover your dear early love," it says (Rev. 2:4). Isn't that what Eden hasn't lost (yet)?
"God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life" (Psalm 51:10). That is, shape my thinking into the fresh thankfulness that Eden still has.
So I say, Dear God, since You're listening no matter what I do, grow me up in responsibility but return me to an Eden heart in thankfulness and fresh eyes for You.
