I'm a Raisin
READ: Mark 10:13-16
I was babysitting for my niece and nephew one night and it was bath time for my niece, Brianna. She loves to take bathes. She can literally be in the tub for hours. I don’t have a problem with her being squeaky clean, but I do have a problem getting her to go to bed if she is still in the tub. This time she was being a fish, so, of course, she couldn’t get out just yet. I still had to give my nephew a bath and it was getting late, so I had to get her out quickly. I told her the same thing my dad would tell me when I was swimming too long. I told her she was going to turn into a raisin. She kind of believed me at first, but when I told her to look at her wrinkled hands, she had no doubt that I was telling her the truth. She screamed for me to take her out before she was totally a raisin. After I dried her off, I told her that she would be fine and she wouldn’t turn into a raisin.
Her trust in me at that moment is like the trust we have in Jesus. We should depend on Jesus to save us in every situation. Our Lord says in Mark 10:15, “I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” If we do not have faith as strong as a child’s, we’ll never get to heaven. We are God’s children and He is our Father. We should look to Him and put all trust in Him, just like the trust we had for our dads when we were kids.
When we hear God’s Word, we should be just as ready to say, “I’m a Christian,” as when my niece said, “I’m a raisin!”
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT: How could we strengthen our faith to be more like a child’s faith? How should we look at God in His relationship to us?
PRAYER SUGGESTIONS: Ask the Lord to make our faith as strong as a little child’s so we may go to heaven to be with Him. Thank God for recognizing the children, because we were all children once, too. Thank God for being our Father and for sending His Son to save the rest of His children.