Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Childlike faith

We subscribe to this magazine, "Voice of the Martyrs". Its about persecuted Christians around the world, and what we can do to help. So Neal sees this lying on the Kitchen table tonight, and the headline is "Illegal Christians in China". This was the conversation that followed.

NEAL: Why are there illegal Christians in China?
MOM: Because the government in that country does not allow people to become Christians, so it is illegal. They put you in jail if they find out that you serve Christ.
NEAL: Well, that's not right, we should do something about that.

The conversation carried on about how people are in fact doing something about that, and how the God of Heaven's Armies (I love that phrase in Scripture) is on our side to stand and fight on our behalf for his kingdom.

But the part of the conversation I loved the most was what I wrote down above. I think that must be what Christ meant when he said, "we must have the faith like that of a child". Neal didn't look at the problem and say, its too big, or how will we do it. He just said, "its not right, lets change it".....I love that.

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