Child Like Faith

      Spring break is finally here!!  I wasn't able to fly all the way home for the week, so I came down to Carlsbad to visit my aunt and her family.  Spending time with my cousins is amazing, and I am so glad to be here.  My cousin Romy fell asleep in my arms tonight while we were all watching Rango.  The best feeling in the whole world is a sleeping child in your arms.  It is a wonderful example of love, of perfect contentment, and complete trust.  She was perfectly peaceful and completely at rest.  She innately trusted that I was going to make sure she was safe and comfortable without even thinking about it.  She wasn't worrying about anything; she was just sleeping peacefully.
     This reminds me of the child like faith that God wants us to have.  We should love Him so much that we trust Him with absolutely everything and are completely content surrendering everything to Him and falling asleep in His arms.  It should be something that we don't even think about.  When Romy was falling asleep, she wasn't worrying about whether I was going to take care of her or how I was going to care for her; she didn't even consciously trust that I would take care of her.  We need to have the same attitude toward God.  We shouldn't worry about how He's going to take care of us.  We should know Him so well and love Him so much that we don't even think about trusting Him, we just do because we know He will take care of us.  I want that so bad.  I want to be able to trust God without even thinking about it.  I want to be able to eradicate all worry from my mind.
     It is so difficult to have that type of attitude.  As we get older, we stop having child like faith in anything, especially in God.  We have to think through everything, reason through everything, and contemplate everything really deeply before we put our mind to something.  Trusting in God isn't something that I should put my mind to; it's something I should innately do more and more as I come to know God and His character more deeply.  This needs to be my prayer, and yours - that we can develop a child like faith again as we grow in our knowledge of and relationship with God.  As long as I am in this flesh, I will never be able to eradicate all worry, but I can make my trust in God more of a constant attitude rather than a contemplated choice.