Walk on Water

Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.

In Peter Pan, it was easy for the Lost Boys to fly.  It was even easy for the baby Peter..  But if you've ever watched Hook, you'd have seen how difficult it was for the adult Peter to find the faith to fly.  In the Chronicles of Narnia, beyond a certain age, you're forbidden to come back to Narnia.  Or maybe it was more that they could no longer find their way back to Narnia.  In fact, the entire kingdom of Narnia was ruled by..children. 

I read just today that the king of Uganda turned 18 and for the first time, he can make decisions for his kingdom without consulting his advisers.  He became king at age 3, and my first reaction as I read this article was "how ridiculous."  But maybe I'm wrong - perhaps it takes a child's eyes and a child's dreams to realize the greatest aspirations into actuality.

When I was younger, I believed I could change the world.  Somehow, someway, God would open the doors for me to become a mover and shaker of this world, even if just one neighborhood at a time.  With time I threw that idea away as I realized I couldn't even change myself.  When I was younger, I lived carefree.  My life was secure in Christ, what could be more important?  Yet, doesn't the world scream at me today that there are a million and one things more important? 

 You still don't have a girlfriend?  Are you sure you're trying hard enough in school?  Don't disappoint your family Eugene.  Shouldn't you be studying?  Do you really go around dressing like that?  Why don't you try and make more friends?  Are you going to end up in Korea one day?  What kind of doctor will you be?  Why can't you commit to your church?  What happened to wanting to form a prayer group at school - became too busy?  Eugene..are you worthy?

Quiet.  quiet.  You are my freedom, Jesus you're the reason I'm kneeling at Your throne.  Where would I be without you here in my life?  You're my freedom.

I'm getting older - that will not change.  But doesn't His Word say:  Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.  And if with age, we are wasting away, can't I also inversely consider this to mean that inside, I am getting YOUNGER with renewal?  That inwardly, I am becoming more like a child?  And isn't my goal to:

Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved CHILDREN.  And forever, I have to picture that powerful image of a child who follows his father adoringly around, mimicking every action in hopes that he would be more and more like his dad with each motion.  And so, with great excitement and with great gusto, we adore and imitate our Father in heaven.

And God's Word says that our inward child-ification is a consequence of FAITH - the same mighty faith through which we resound "I believed; therefore I have spoken."

So by faith then, I will walk on water; I might dare to even RUN as an eager child.

I have never walked on water, felt the waves beneath my feet,

but at your Word Lord, I'll receive Your Faith to walk on oceans deep.

And I remember how you found me:

In that very same place, all my failing surely would have DROWNED me

but YOU made a way.