Three-year-old Lucy was at a Bible conference with her parents and little brother Brandon. On their way to breakfast, they had passed right by the outdoor pool. It was a bright, sunny morning, and the pool looked inviting. But it was cool enough that Lucy and Brandon had worn jackets to the breakfast room.
When I came to breakfast, I sat across the table from Lucy and enjoyed visiting with her and her family. As soon as she was finished eating her breakfast, Lucy exclaimed, “Now I can go swimming!”
“Lucy, it’s too cold to go swimming. Don’t you remember wearing your jacket when we came to the breakfast room?” Mommy explained.
“Who would go swimming with you?” I asked Lucy.
“My daddy! He would keep me warm!” she explained to me.
It was good to hear of Lucy’s trust in her daddy. But how could he keep Lucy warm in the cold water?
My conversation with Lucy reminded me that I can have that same trust in my heavenly Father. When I was still a young girl, I put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. I understood that I was a sinner and that I could not go to heaven with even one of my sins. I believed that Jesus had died on the cross to take the punishment for my sins. And so I confessed to Him that I was a sinner and trusted Him to be my Savior. That made the Lord Jesus’ Father my Father too. And now I can trust my heavenly Father to care for me every day!
God has told me in His book, the Bible, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3). Then in Proverbs 16:20, He also says, “Whoso [trusts] in the Lord, happy is he.”
Will you join me in trusting the Lord Jesus every day?
ML-01/14/2018