JESUS, I JUST WANT A....

This beautiful little man is so full of wisdom and he doesn't even know it. Ronny, Riley & I were walking into Wal-Mart and as we are walking in Riley looks up at the sky and in a VERY loud voice says, "Jesus, I just want a 4 wheewer" with his hands up in the air. Ronny and I just look at one another and thought that that was what he said but asked him what he said anyway. So he repeated, at the top of his lungs, "Jesus, I just want a 4 wheewer!" We just died laughing, but as we thought about it later, the verse in which Jesus told us to have the faith of a child came to mind. If Mom and Dad wouldn't give him what he wanted he was going to go to the man that just might do it. He didn't question the fact that it may be a selfish want or rationalize that Jesus didn't want to hear about a 4 wheeler, he just asked the one that loved him and wanted him to have what he wanted. If only we were like that. There are so many times that we don't ask because we rationalize that Jesus could not possibly have time to answer our worthless needs and there are people in greater need than we. Jesus doesn't pick and choose who he answers. He knows our every need and deepest desire. He may not give us all that we ask for, whether it be a want or the need for relief from something, but he does each thing that he knows is best for us, but we should ask EVERYTHING of the one that has our best interest at heart. He knows all that we want but he still wants to have that conversation with us and to hear us ask him ourselves. He loves to hear our goofy stuff...just like we laugh at our kids. He wants to be included in every aspect of our lives, even the ones that we think he doesn't want to hear about. Ask the one who loved you before time began for everything. Have the faith of a child. Even if he giggles at us, it is worth the conversation and the love of the one who loved us from the beginning.