Have you ever just stopped and watched a child play? Have you ever told a Bible story and sat back in amazement at how much that child retains and is then able to cite back to you? What about asking a child the simple question, “Who made us?”
If your answer to any of these was no, then I encourage you to try it. Experience the faith and trust of a child through their eyes. I have 3 boys, ages 7, 4, and 5 months and I daily ask them, “Who made you” or “Where did the trees come from?” My 4 year old, right away chimes in with, “God of course silly.” My 7 year old simply points to the heavens.
They don’t question anything or doubt what they hear from their parents or from the Bible. They accept it by faith and it’s this very faith that Jesus praises them for in Mark 10:13-15. In verse 15 he says, “I assure you, anyone who doesn't have their kind of faith will never get into the Kingdom of God."
Somehow as we get older we complicate what was designed to be so simple. We become a doubting Thomas. Even though Thomas had walked with Christ for 3 years and had seen hundreds if not thousands of miracles, he doubted. He doubted the very words of Jesus and could not see how a man, who had healed the blind, fed thousands, turned water into wine, walked on the water, and even brought several people back from the dead, as being able to return from the dead himself.
All of a sudden we need to see proof of creation, we need to see proof that the Bible tells the truth about how old the earth is, and all of a sudden we too ask to touch the nail pierced hands and feet. Why do we complicate it?
The Bible says that because of sin we have became twisted and everything on this earth is twisted. Our very thoughts and concepts have been twisted by sin. Man’s fallible ideas about where we came from and the origins of the universe are designed to give man, not God, the glory. We just happened, something took place to start the Big Bang, and we created ourselves, all of these are thoughts twisted because of sin.
Put all of the parts and pieces of a cell phone into a zip-lock bag and start shaking it up. After a few minutes of shaking it up, pour everything out and see what you get. Did you get a complete cell-phone capable of making a phone call or just a large pile of debris? Now invite one of your kids over and tell them that if you continue this process long enough (millions of years) you will eventually get a complete working cell-phone. What do you think their response is going to be? Do you think they will believe you? Of course not and most people can see that this idea is flawed. A cell-phone is a complicated piece of equipment that requires someone to design and put the pieces together in the right order if it is to function the way it is supposed to, just like life here one earth. Yet evolution would have you believe that given enough time, this machine would build itself in the right order and sequence.
As complicated as a cell-phone, a single human cell is thousands of times more intricate and complex that even our most advanced computers and we are made up of millions of cells. So why wouldn’t the same criteria be required for our creation as it is for cell-phones and other computers? Because that would mean we would have to answer to somebody. We would no longer be able to live our lives the way we wanted to, but would rather have to admit we are answerable to our creator. Pride. Pride in thinking we know what is best, pride in our “own” advances, and yes even pride that we know more than God.
Children don’t suffer from this problem. They don’t know pride. They do however know what they are taught. If they are taught that God’s word is truth and that the Bible is the “History Book of the Universe,” they will believe it and defend it. Oh how I wish I could have the faith of a child. To simply open up God’s word and not question, but rather simply see truth.
When is the last time you had a child like faith? When is the last time you simply sat under a tree in a park and listened to the sounds around you and looked at all the birds and other wildlife? When is the last time you just sat there and felt the breeze brush your skin and you looked up into a cloudless, bright blue sky as the leaves of the trees swayed overhead? When is the last time you were simply still and were not trying to figure anything out? When is the last time you let God reveal himself to you through his creation?
Psalm 19:1-4 “The heavens tell the glory of God, and the skies announce what his hands have made. Day after Day they tell the story; night after night they tell it again. They have no speech or words; they have no voice to be heard. But their message goes out through the world; their words go everywhere on earth.”
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Written by:
Steven Baird
Author of “Another Road to Damascus: A Journey from Evolution to Creation”
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