Monday, May 17, 2010

God Words

A couple of weeks ago, sitting in worship, I noticed Lacey (Our three-yr-old) was using a crayon to highlight words on our worship lyric sheets.  I leaned over and asked what she was doing.  She said, "I'm finding God words"!  She was going through the entire sheet and highlighting words like God, Jesus, Lord or Savior.

So I took a minute to help her (don't tell the pastor).  It fascinated me that she was excited about finding "God words" in the song lyrics.  With all the things she could do during the sermon... color, play with a doll or one of her storm-trooper action figures, she chose to get the lyric sheet out and look for "God words"!

This really got me to thinking.  How often do I put aside the things I'd rather be doing and look for "God words"?  Let's change that a bit.  How often do I put aside the things I'd rather be doing and look for "God's Word"?  When I'd rather be watching a movie or perusing Facebook, wouldn't it be better to take that time to sit down with God's Word and see what He wants me to do?

You can learn a lot from a child.